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SOPA/PIPA dropped today?

mithu

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Just got this email:


"Hi everyone![/color]
[/size]A big hurrah to you!!!!! We’ve won for now -- SOPA and PIPA were dropped by Congress today -- the votes we’ve been scrambling to mobilize against have been cancelled.The largest online protest in history has fundamentally changed the game. You were heard. On January 18th, 13 million of us took the time to tell Congress to protect free speech rights on the internet. Hundreds of millions, maybe a billion, people all around the world saw what we did on Wednesday. See
http://act.fightforthefuture.org/page/m/2e1f208c/1d0dddda/71ac2153/f863ecf/2912046762/VEsH/http://act.fightforthefuture.org/page/m/2e1f208c/1d0dddda/71ac2153/f863ecf/2912046762/VEsH/the amazing numbers here[/color][/color][/size] and tell everyone what you did.This was unprecedented. Your activism may have changed the way people fight for the public interest and basic rights forever.
The MPAA (the lobby for big movie studios which created these terrible bills) was shocked and seemingly humbled. “‘This was a whole new different game all of a sudden,’ MPAA Chairman and former Senator Chris Dodd told the [/size]New York Times[/color]. ‘[PIPA and SOPA were] considered by many to be a slam dunk.’”

“'This is altogether a new effect,' Mr. Dodd said, comparing the online movement to the Arab Spring. He could not remember seeing 'an effort that was moving with this degree of support change this dramatically' in the last four decades, he added."

[/size]Tweet with us, shout on the internet with us, let's celebrate: Round of applause to the 13 million people who stood up - #PIPA and #SOPA are tabled 4 now. #13millionapplause"
[/size]Not sure if this is true, nothing has come up about this in news reader.
 

Basim

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Rajbir

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all that means is that they will change the literature and try and pass the bill again in the future.
 

razorhedge

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Yep. bills are like zombies. You never know if they are dead or alive


In reality, this is just a big ego battle between Silicon Valley and Hollywood. Nobody really cares abt me and you.
 

jfried

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Give it a month or two and this thing will be back with slightly watered down language but the same conceit. It's just like those anti-net neutrality bills that kept popping up for a few years.
 

DamanSingh

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SOPA/PIPA may be under the table for now, but just watch out for the next one.


The next internet censorship bill is ACTA (Anti-counterfeiting trade agreement).
It's arguably worse than the previous two. Check out this video:

http://youtu.be/N8Xg_C2YmG0
 

harjap_singh

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jfried said:
Give it a month or two and this thing will be back with slightly watered down language but the same conceit. It's just like those anti-net neutrality bills that kept popping up for a few years.
+1
 
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