SOPA is dead!

[zimok]

I'm stoked Ron Wyden got a lot of love today. I've been a big supporter of his since he opposed estamp.
Incase any people doesn't remember the senate actually tried to impose a tax on sending emails back in the late 90s. They were so ignorant they actually thought since emails has the word mail in it, it would be possible to put a tax on a virtual message much like a stamp on a snail mail The only reason it didn't pass is because some experts came in at the 11th hour to let them know it wouldn't be technologically possible to enforce.

I remember this shit, I believe it was branded as a way to combat spam as well.

 

[kingofsp]

I don't really get why everyone was so up in arms over Italian soap in the first place. Who cares?

 

[Firelead]

 

[MSTeacher]

lols

 

[music4mic]

This is likely the next attempt to ram some bad shit through:
Anti-pornography bill won't protect children, but it could cripple the Internet -- Government Computer News


More recent article:

http://www.slashgear.com/sopa-sponsor-has-another-internet-bill-that-records-you-247-20210264/

Senator Lamar Smith, lead sponsor of the currently dead SOPA bill you’ve heard so much about, has another bill in the works that uses Child Pornography as a screen to push through an amendment that’ll have your internet service provider tracking all of your financial dealings online. Each time you use a credit card, each time you read your bank statement, all of your IP information and your search history will be required by your ISP to be stored for 18 months at all times. This bill is H.R. 1981 and will have more dire consequences than SOPA or PIPA ever had the potential to have.

Yup, it's Lamar Smith again.

 

[itsjustbrian]

Horny kids will always find a way to access porn. Porn magazines and adult stores were around long before the internet.

This is likely the next attempt to ram some bad shit through:
Anti-pornography bill won't protect children, but it could cripple the Internet -- Government Computer News

 

[cougarclaws]

Horny kids will always find a way to access porn. Porn magazines and adult stores were around long before the internet.

is that you Teguh?

 

[lukep]

Yup, it's Lamar Smith again.

Holy hell... Already?

Poor bastard must be blackmailed into getting something thru before his present (& obviously final) term is up. Clearly he's going to be voted off the hill with extreme prejudice.


Question is now: When this one is close to passing, would another organized blackout day happen? Would it work again?

The child-porn tie-in makes me doubt it would happen at all. :boid: