How SOPA would affect you: FAQ

Q: What's the justification for SOPA and Protect IP?
Two words: rogue sites.

Who's opposed to SOPA?
Much of the Internet industry and a large percentage of Internet users. Here's the most current list (PDF) of opponents.

How would SOPA work?
It allows the U.S. attorney general to seek a court order against the targeted offshore Web site that would, in turn, be served on Internet providers in an effort to make the target virtually disappear. It's kind of an Internet death penalty.

What will SOPA require Internet providers to do?
A little-noticed portion of the proposed law, which CNET highlighted in an article, goes further than Protect IP and could require Internet providers to monitor customers' traffic and block Web sites suspected of copyright infringement.

Are there free speech implications to SOPA?
SOPA's opponents say so--a New York Times op-ed called it the "Great Firewall of America--and the language of the bill itself is quite broad. Section 103 says that, to be blacklisted, a Web site must be "directed" at the U.S. and also that the owner "has promoted" acts that can infringe copyright.

21,000 domains transfer out of Go Daddy in 1 day

"Yesterday, Go Daddy actually reversed course and dropped its support for the controversial legislation."

That sucks. How will my corporate masters make any money if this bill doesn't pass?

--HollyForth

Its already happened... the sell-outs in congress/POTUS just want to make it legal so nobody can get them arrested later.

Ruination, the Obama agenda summed up in a single word.

The War on the "N-tanet?"

"Yesterday, Go Daddy actually reversed course and dropped its support for the controversial legislation."

That sucks. How will my corporate masters make any money if this bill doesn't pass?

#3 | Posted by nullifidian

Null, all trolling aside, although mega corporations will benefit from this, the Federal Government, in it's move toward fascism will benefit most since it will be easier to take over mega corporations once you shut down free speech.

As A Open-Minded, Openly Gay Liberal, I Understand That Free Speech Should Be Preserved At All Costs.

However, Hate-Speech (Rush, Beck, Et. El.,) Should Be Banned.
This Move Will Empower The Government To Stomp Out Hate-Speech Once And For All.

Support Free Speech By Pulling The Plug On Reich-Wingers!

Be Well.

There's one thing that can be said about Obama. He has been quite thorough in fucking shit up.

Is anything, anything at all, better now?

whatever it takes to get the Retort off of the internet... I am willing to do!

whatever it takes to get the Retort off of the internet... I am willing to do!

#10 | Posted by AuntieSocial

Then what the hell would you do with your time, play tiddlywinks?

If they are able to remove one website because a certain portion of the population doesn't like it or what it represents, then what will stop them from doing the same to any website?

Piracy is the internet version of the sincerest form of flattery embrace it Danforth

"If they are able to remove one website because a certain portion of the population doesn't like it or what it represents, then what will stop them from doing the same to any website?"

Not a thing. Hollywood would destroy the freedom and openness of the Internet in order to squeeze a few more dollars from consumers. Of course, none of those dollars will go to the artists. More likely it will pay for cocaine and hookers at Hollywood industry parties.

The democratizing power of the Internet directly threatens the entertainment cartel's non-Socialist, danni-should-hate-it-too-but- doesn't-cause-its-a-democrat- business, 99%er business model.

Will this be the end of NORTHGUY3 ?

I hope not, that guys riot.
Dumb as a rock, but fun to kick in the N-ts.

.....NOPE in 2012....then the unions of the teachers, billions and billions wasted year after year.

However, Hate-Speech (Rush, Beck, Et. El.,) Should Be Banned.
This Move Will Empower The Government To Stomp Out Hate-Speech Once And For All.
#8 | Posted by skip_wellington

Bullshit Skipper.

Then all of the Bush-bashers will have to go to jail.

Do you really want that to happen?

... didn't think so.

This is what you get when "Open-minded" Liberals give their opinion.

Free speech is free speech.

However, Hate-Speech (Rush, Beck, Et. El.,) Should Be Banned.
This Move Will Empower The Government To Stomp Out Hate-Speech Once And For All.
#8 | Posted by skip_wellington

I don't know, if Eric Holder is the person deciding on what's hateful then I guess it could work out alright.

Hell, I trust him with that.

There's hate-speech, then there's hate-dress.

And I hate the way they dress. And that's precisely why they dress that way.

It's hateful to me. Staring at a young man's butte while ordering a Big Mac with a small drink, offends my eyes.

They may like buttes and be up up in line ahead of me and that's fine, but I don't want to be smellin' young buttes with them.

Wikipedia Ditching GoDaddy Over SOPA, Jimmy Wales Says

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced that domain names belonging to Wikipedia and Wikia would be transferred off of GoDaddy, an Internet domain registrar, to protest GoDaddy's support for the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act, a controversial anti-piracy bill under consideration by Congress.

China uses pedo bear to silence internet dissent. Oh and the sexual harassment panda.

Will this be the end of NORTHGUY3 ?

Nevah! We shall fight them on the internets, we shall fight them on the twitters. We shall fight them on the linkedins so that, if the interwebs last for a thousand years, they shall say, this was their finest posting!