SOPA. Should we be worried?

[mashman]

Why are governments wasting their time a shitload of THE PEOPLES money and resources when they are in a shitload of debt. All to help make the rich richer. etc...

nice post. But did change 1 thing

[george formby]

Wikipedia are protesting for a day today

They are not alone....

advrider


I hope google etc come aboard or this will be an own goal.

[PirateJafa]

They are not alone....

advrider


I hope google etc come aboard or this will be an own goal.

Google certainly did come on board, along with a good number of other websites, probably most notably of which was Wikipedia, which "blacked out" entirely - bad news for students, I'm sure.

Google also appears to have had excellent success with its petition.

It appears that SOPA/PIPA will be shot down, at least in its current form. However I am sure that they will try to sneak it through again in the not too distant future.

Interestingly, it also appears that the author of the SOPA bill has broken the laws that he was trying to put into place on his own site. How delightfully ironic.

Thank god Advrider is back up now though!

[TrentNz]

take a look at this > http://www.change.org/petitions/tell...net-censorship

[george formby]

I had a larf at a comment made on the TV 7 news last night. The irony of Rupert Murdoch voicing his support for SOPA via twitter.... Greedy barstewards should put their effort into using the interweb profitably not controlling it.

[TrentNz]

fuck sopa.

[SMOKEU]

It's the money hungry jews who are behind this all.

[mashman]

It's the money hungry jews who are behind this all.

no it's not, it's the sand niggas

[steve_t]

You're both wrong. It's the stonecutters







And no, I'm not saying it's the freemasons

[TrentNz]

what happened to the old days, where we could do almost anything without anyone giving a fuck

[jazfender]

Based on National's willingness to hand over suspects to the US today, I think we should be worried.

[TrentNz]

I reckon its time for a revolution

whos keen

[SPman]

The bill may be temporarily shelved, but sooner or later, it'll come back, bigger and more bullying, and will probably be slipped in through the back door this time......much like this National government passes it's legislation........

[onearmedbandit]

what happened to the old days, where we could do almost anything without anyone giving a fuck

How old are you again?

Based on National's willingness to hand over suspects to the US today, I think we should be worried.

National? I thought it was the police that were cooperating with the FBI? Regardless, Labour would've told them to fuck off eh?

[jazfender]

National? I thought it was the police that were cooperating with the FBI? Regardless, Labour would've told them to fuck off eh?

You think that an international operation like that just bypasses the foreign affairs ministry?

You're the only one talking about Labour mate.