Thread: About Sopa

Originally Posted by ThePreserver

As a person who occasionally likes to see the world burn (in ways that are not very harmful) I am looking forward to this! Because technically, Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, AOL, etc. all going down for an unknown period of time will not be very physically harmful... and it'll show people who are addicted how addicted they've become.

Plus it will piss off every whiny, ungrateful, "entitled" American middle-class asshole... all because they didn't care about their government. (Too busy with their bread and circuses I suppose.)

Does that sound too harsh? Because really I think it will do us good to get people caring again, at least about one thing!

I love the way you think.

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

Originally Posted by Omnis Dei

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

They haven't publicly supported or opposed it. That, to me, makes them look bad. (Yes, it would possibly boost iTunes sales... but it would also make them terrible people for complying.)

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.

I still support the Congressmen who oppose SOPA, but now I don't care if it passes; I'll be content either way.

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 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.

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.

I wish I had two minds.

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...

Oh okay, I thought they wouldn't support PIPA either.
Maybe they should also massively bias the pages of the politicians who supported it

I thought only SOPA was getting denied, PIPA's still going through as of now (unless I'm mistaken) so we still need to demonstrate.

Besides, on the same tone as preserver, let's show congress that change doesn't have to work through a lobby.

Google Plans Home Page Protest Against U.S. Piracy Measures - Businessweek

Google is participating as well.

Slightly unrelated, but apparently if you're in the UK you can now be extradited to the US for an act taking place in your own native country despite having committed no crime whatsoever and having never set foot in the US, nor being bound by US law in any way shape or form.

What the fuck?

BBC News - 'Piracy' student Richard O'Dwyer loses extradition case

Originally Posted by Photolysis

Slightly unrelated, but apparently if you're in the UK you can now be extradited to the US for an act taking place in your own native country despite having committed no crime whatsoever and having never set foot in the US, nor being bound by US law in any way shape or form.

What the fuck?

BBC News - 'Piracy' student Richard O'Dwyer loses extradition case

Yep, just ask Marc Emery Marc Emery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Quote from the Preserver's article:

The so-called blackout day to protest anti-piracy legislation is “abuse of power given the freedoms these companies enjoy in the marketplace today,” Christopher Dodd, chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, said today in an e-mailed statement.

.... The freedoms they enjoy, WHICH YOU WANT TO FUCKING TAKE AWAY YOU DAFT CUNT!


*deep breaths*
I agree that Romney can't win too.
You know, America is just taking advantage of a well known trait of the human psyche.
If they/you all spoke some exotic language and had darker skin everyone would see you the same they see any country you're at war with now. Probably worse.