Two or three days ago, announcements were broadcast on various Media Outlets stating that two bills in the Congress and the Senate, SOPA and PROTECT-IP were effectively “Dead-in-the-Water,” resulting in the cancellation (or extreme reduction) of what would have been an extremely disruptive– and therefore highly dramatic– strike/protest by Major Internet Companies against the proposed legislation.
The fact that no sources were actually named, as well as the coordinated nature of this spurious disinformation campaign, indicates that this legislation, involving a precipitous curtailment of the Civil Liberties in the United States, indicates a scope of political interests far beyond those of the Entertainment Industry.
History shows us that a curtailment of Civil Liberties is never instituted without an eye to a further attack on those same liberties at a later date.
This debate is not over. Expect to hear opponents to these bills caricatured as disgruntled pirates of popular entertainment, 20-somethings living in their mothers’ basements, who want to continue downloading music and movies without having to pay for the privilege.
Expect to read further, and ever more disturbing, developments in the coming months.
View A Legal Analysis of S. 968, the PROTECT IP Act [PDF] from the Congressional Research Service
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Disinformation Campaign Proves Effective as Anti-SOPA Strike-Breaker
January 19, 2012 Leave a comment
Two or three days ago, announcements were broadcast on various Media Outlets stating that two bills in the Congress and the Senate, SOPA and PROTECT-IP were effectively “Dead-in-the-Water,” resulting in the cancellation (or extreme reduction) of what would have been an extremely disruptive– and therefore highly dramatic– strike/protest by Major Internet Companies against the proposed legislation.
The fact that no sources were actually named, as well as the coordinated nature of this spurious disinformation campaign, indicates that this legislation, involving a precipitous curtailment of the Civil Liberties in the United States, indicates a scope of political interests far beyond those of the Entertainment Industry.
History shows us that a curtailment of Civil Liberties is never instituted without an eye to a further attack on those same liberties at a later date.
This debate is not over. Expect to hear opponents to these bills caricatured as disgruntled pirates of popular entertainment, 20-somethings living in their mothers’ basements, who want to continue downloading music and movies without having to pay for the privilege.
Expect to read further, and ever more disturbing, developments in the coming months.
View A Legal Analysis of S. 968, the PROTECT IP Act [PDF] from the Congressional Research Service
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