I'm sure all of you are aware of SOPA and PIPA which can ruin the internet. Heck, even by posting a link to a highlights video here can get Mens Tennis Forums shut down.
I know this isn't supposed to go in the General Messages, but I want this to have the most views possible
Read the SOPA and PIPA guidelines if you think that it simply involves paying for your streams. SOPA and PIPA are so unbelievably restrictive that it is frightening. I'm not just commenting as a completely baffled (ashamed?) person currently living in the US either. If this same law were to be suggested in England, France, Oz, etc I would be absolutely shaking my head about how such a country could become so stifling, and such regulations certainly have an impact on both sport and sports forums.
Read the SOPA and PIPA guidelines if you think that it simply involves paying for your streams. SOPA and PIPA are so unbelievably restrictive that it is frightening.
I thought America was the land of the free . They want to control the internet. When China does it they say it's human rights abuse. When America does it they say it's to stop piracy and the usual excuse national security. Hypocrites.
Same but it's still good to stand up against it. Hell Congress and such get away with passing too many bills that the American public really never educates themselves on, with some sketchy things written in them. It's good to see as a nation we're starting to take more notice in these types of things.
America is exposed for their hypocrisy... They used to criticized China for censorship. Now the US want to copy China and create a Great Firewall of America. There is a lot more to the bill than what is stated in its context. Just look at the history of the American govt. and the happy trigger of lawsuits, corporations attacking each other. These bills should be viewed as a start, a gateway drug of some kind. Who knows where it might lead us too..
Gee I knew this country had really gone downhill, but this is awful. I mean we have a high unemployment rate and a deficit that is out of this world and yet our government is working on things like SOPA and PIPA??????????
Online Piracy Vote Canceled It must have been really tough around the Senate without Wikipedia. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Friday that the vote on a controversial—and highly unpopular—online piracy bill had been delayed indefinitely. The House later announced a similar measure for its equivalent bill, known as the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. The bills had caused Wikipedia and several other websites to go dark Wednesday in protest. While a number of high-profile senators had pulled back their support of the bills in recent days, it placed Democrats between two powerful interest groups: Hollywood, which supports a crackdown on online piracy, and Silicon Valley, which believes the bills in their current form would hinder the Internet’s business model. One of the Senate bill's sponsors, Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, said delaying the bill is a victory for "overseas criminals" who would "drain our economy."
You don't ban cars because some people are killed by bad drivers.
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