Thread: About Sopa

True, there's a point where you just have to go "fuck it" and watch the idiots destroy themselves.

Of course I'd rather Congress be competent and just not pass this bill whatsoever...

After watching Twitter blow up over Christmas over people getting the wrong colour iPhone when some children wouldn't even dream of ASKING for such extravagance... I think it's for the best. Some people take this all for granted, they need some well-intentioned mayhem.

It's not their fault entirely. If you give your kid shit without them doing anything, you can't expect them to grow up and WANT to work for everything they need or want.
But I agree, well-intentioned mayhem seems like the best option to fix all this. Or just a large bomb underne

Originally Posted by tommo

It's not their fault entirely. If you give your kid shit without them doing anything, you can't expect them to grow up and WANT to work for everything they need or want.
But I agree, well-intentioned mayhem seems like the best option to fix all this. Or just a large bomb underne

Then the parents can deal with their complaints. "FACEBOOK ISN'T WORKING! I CAN'T GOOGLE STUFF!"

Originally Posted by cmind

Taking down Foxnews.com, the November 5 bank run, etc. Of course, you'll deny these plans had anything to do with Anonymous, so whatever.

Anonymous is not a single set of individuals. Why is that so fucking hard for some people to understand?

Originally Posted by ThePreserver

Then the parents can deal with their complaints. "FACEBOOK ISN'T WORKING! I CAN'T GOOGLE STUFF!"

Average response:

"Facebook isn't working! What's it say, something about...'S-O-P-A'? I don't care about soap! Want Facebook!"

Originally Posted by Supernova

Anonymous is not a single set of individuals. Why is that so fucking hard for some people to understand?

Yeah, but it kinda is. It may be amorphous at the edges, but there is certainly a core group of people behind it.

Originally Posted by Supernova

Average response:

"Facebook isn't working! What's it say, something about...'S-O-P-A'? I don't care about soap! Want Facebook!"

I'm perfectly fine with that ^.^

Originally Posted by Supernova

Average response:

"Facebook isn't working! What's it say, something about...'S-O-P-A'? I don't care about soap! Want Facebook!"

That just proves how single-minded people are, and how we're lucky to have minds that can see through all this garbage.

Originally Posted by Puffin

That just proves how single-minded people are, and how we're lucky to have minds that can see through all this garbage.

Amen! (I can't think of a non-religious word that fits better.) It's nice that people can survive functionally without the internet; I actually enjoy my life better without the internet but it keeps SUCKING ME BACK IN!

Originally Posted by Puffin

That just proves how single-minded people are, and how we're lucky to have minds that can see through all this garbage.

Lulwut? Presever's made up response of the average person proves how single minded people are?

I think Puffin means that anyone's experience of facebook reveals how single minded people are.

Is it really that hard to understand my post? I meant to bring attention to how people don't care for larger issues, and instead indulge their own addictions or need for a website.

I wish I had two minds.

Originally Posted by Puffin

Is it really that hard to understand my post? I meant to bring attention to how people don't care for larger issues, and instead indulge their own addictions or need for a website.

But the post was made up. It's an assumption. We will see whether it stands strue on the 23rd or whenever.

Originally Posted by cmind

Yeah, but it kinda is. It may be amorphous at the edges, but there is certainly a core group of people behind it.

What gives you this impression? The "group" has no administration, unless you look at smaller projects, such as chanology. As a whole, it's more of a hivemind, that eventually converges on attacking something.

Originally Posted by Omnis Dei

It'd be nice to see Apple get behind this and turn off Congress' Iphones

Apple won't. I'm sure as a company, they don't support it, but a huge chunk of their business, is the iTunes store. They don't want any of the big companies to pull out of it. I think they could still oppose the bill and not loose anyone because, honestly, they have no where else to go, iTunes is the dominate music store, but they won't take that risk. Steve Jobs would have taken the stance, Apple without him won't.

Originally Posted by Supernova

"Facebook isn't working! What's it say, something about...'S-O-P-A'? I don't care about soap! Want Facebook!"

A blackout does not mean they will go down. It means they will give you a page explaining SOPA, and likely post a link to email your Senator directly from the site, provide their phone number. Facebook and google both have SIP phones, it is likely they will offer you a way to call the senators directly from the page without having to use your phone. The tumblr blackout had a button to go back to the normal page, FB and google most likely will too.

Fighting Antipiracy Measure, Activist Group Posts Personal Information of Media Executives - NYTimes.com

Lawmakers and their aides have also been targets. A photograph of a 25-year-old aide for the House Judiciary Committee was superimposed into pornography by a group related to Anonymous, according to another aide who was briefed on security threats to lawmakers and their staffs. “Why can’t they just hire a lobbyist like everyone else?” this aide said.

Haha! Go Anon.

And that quote says more than anything, huh?

Under voter pressure, members of Congress backpedal (hard) on SOPA

from your article:

Lest anyone doubt the signers' tough-on-piracy bona fides, they include Orrin Hatch (R-UT), who once proposed that Congress give copyright holders a special exemption allowing them to hack into the computers of those suspected of piracy. In a 2003 hearing, he suggested that damaging someone's computer "may be the only way you can teach somebody about copyrights."

That's Utah for ya

I want the blackout to be an actual blackout... where they go down, and you can ONLY reach a page about SOPA... until it's repealed or killed. That's more pleasing to me and would be more likely to get people to participate in government.

YAY!!! This is so EXCITING!

Oh I just posted that in the internet censorship thread before lol
Forgot about this one somehow.

I don't really get why they're doing it though if SOPA and PIPA are not going to pass?

Originally Posted by tommo

OI don't really get why they're doing it though if SOPA and PIPA are not going to pass?

They may possibly be outraged that American politicians are so corrupt and unduly influenced by media industries that there was at one point even a CHANCE of such a dysfunctional bill being passed? Because I'm a little outraged about that...