The general SOPA thread 20XX: It's happening again

[Mass Distraction]

So we've come to this. Again. SOPA 2014 is a thing and they somehow managed to make it even worse than before.

Here's your obligatory petition form, do sign it up for the sake of mankind: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitio...4/q0Vkk0Zr


A couple of articles because where would we be without them?
http://www.screwattack.com/news/stop-sop...appearance
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/...s_who.html

[CLXcool]

Man. These idiots can't seem to take the hint that NOBODY wants the internet censored/being spied on by the nosy government.

[Psychospacecow]

Man. These idiots can't seem to take the hint that NOBODY wants the internet censored/being spied on by the nosy government.

That is the point. The film industry is lobbing for this kind of stuff for this exact reason. Nobody wants it, so every year people shoot it down, so every year it becomes normal, and every year people expect it to just happen and stop until it finally works. Its practically becoming a national holiday in that respect.

[RepentantSky]

Man. These idiots can't seem to take the hint that NOBODY wants the internet censored/being spied on by the nosy government.

That is the point. The film industry is lobbing for this kind of stuff for this exact reason. Nobody wants it, so every year people shoot it down, so every year it becomes normal, and every year people expect it to just happen and stop until it finally works. Its practically becoming a national holiday in that respect.

I really want don't want to think of SOPA as a national holiday, but damn if it's not gonna be hard to do that now. What a thought to stick in people's heads.