Vox
Humana
 Make
no mistake about it, the Stop Online Piracy Act is
nothing more than pure, unfettered greed. The media
companies have decided that they will take down the
internet
if it
means getting your butts back in the theatres, back
in the video rental store, back in the CD emporium,
back in the 20th century. Even though they're currently
making huge profits on all media fronts. (Click here
to read The Pirate Bay's take on Hollywood's hypocrisy
in this instance.)
The bill is so badly written that we could easily lose
all of the social media sites we currently enjoy. Twitter,
Facebook, Reddit, Wikipedia, Youtube... all gone if
just one copyright holder files a complaint. Mere
links to copyrighted material could get your web site,
or
the site you posted the link on, hurled into an inky
void. Even mighty Google would have to tread carefully.
More than that, it's also about censorship. Youtube
is certainly in the gun-sights of those who dislike
the idea
of
freely
shared information. The six men who control all broadcast
media feel that American's are much better off swallowing
whole the
limited pallette of news they dole out in print, on
the hour, and on the half-hour. Lifting the veil of
police brutality
and seeing it shared around the world has proven to
be terribly annoying to the privileged class.
The authors of this bill (and PIPA, it's Senate counterpart)
are the same sad type of "visionaries" who
declared that
cassette
tapes
would
kill the music
industry,
that
video recorders would destroy Hollywood, that selling
your copy of Windows 98 would drive Microsoft to its
virus-infected knees. (Well, one out of three wouldn't
be bad. Grin.)
Now is the moment that you must let your representatives
hear your voice.
Click here to
contact your congressman, or here to
contact your senator, and let them know that Hollywood
moguls will somehow
manage
to afford their mansions, their mistresses, and their
transexual pool-boys without firebombing one of
the greatest physical manifestations of man's creativity
in the history of mankind.
=Lefty=
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And now our Chart of the Day:
Growth of family income from 1947 to 2007. (More like
"Drop in family income", if you ask me.)
Click here to embiggen.
=Lefty=
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Republican Job Creation Update
 1-18-2012:
Here we GO!
On Tuesday, the 17th, the House selected a new, as-yet-unnamed,
Sergeant-At-Arms. On the 18th the House will attempt,
and fail, to vote down Mr. Obama's request for a debt
increase. The House will then adjourn until Monday.
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