The Stop Online Piracy Act may sound innocuous, but it's a nasty little proposition that gives corporations uncontested rights to control what you enjoy on the Internet. Naturally, being a horrible thing, EA can't wait to climb aboard, along with a number of other publishers.
The Internet shouldn't be censored by cowardly companies who are afraid of it, and The Jimquisition urges you take note of what these organizations want to do.
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3:45 PM on 11.21.2011 | 
sign it those in the US!
What's your favorite part about censorship?
Nice try again to take the wind out of Jim's sails. One of these years you will be right and we'll buy you a community cake!
This was recorded before Microsoft and Apple announced their support.
God, dude, seriously, it was just a question. No insult, no hate, nothing. I'm just saying that backing away at the last minute shouldn't absolve them completely.
Only time will tell. In a sick sort if way I would like to see what their defense to backing this is other than that theyre nihilists and just don't give much of a fuck about anything.
The Conservative party in our country is already pushing a copyright bill that's far worse then any introduced or passed in the US and since they have majority, it'll probably pass.
So expect a bill like this to show up in Canada, be worse then this, and pass with little resistance.
When it comes to things like this, believe it or not, Canada is one of the worst countries in the world. Consumer rights mean fuck all here.
Actually, it is probably just people abusing the elastic clause. Still, not sure if an anti-piracy IP blocking thing would ever function because corporationsa are the modern day kings who want to conquer more and more of peoples things.
At best you will get a bunch of companies promising that they would never abuse such blanket authority *pinky swear*. I'd give that less than a month before they go total ape shit shutting everything under the sun down. If they really really pace themselves about three months.
The other thing is how many dissidents will crap legislation like this create? People only obey laws as long as they either respect or fear them. This would elicit no respect so they sure as shit better be shooting for fear..... and you don't win loyalty through oppression, quite the opposite.
There could be more legislation that is aimed at protecting IP but they need a scalpel and this is a log, covered in railroad spikes affixed to a large chain.
Anything from this point on should be viewed as highly suspect.
Fight this Draconian law, FIGHT IT!! SHOUT AT IT!!!
"Why leave Microsoft and Apple out of the headline? <b>They were behind it until today</b>, and after they saw how much resistance it's generated."
There, you answered your own question. Now you can stop posting and stop whiteknighting. Your crappy waifu anime avatar hides nothing.
www.stopcensorship.org or www.demandprogress.org
Sign it!
Tell yo frens!
I can pretend to be in favor of this to create a countet point.
I really wouldn't enjoy it, though. After all, no one wants to be wrong if they can avoid it...
On topic, does anyone know/understand the exact extent and wording of this? I want to know exactly how bad it is, even though I'm already against it.(from what I've heard elsewhere: I can't watch jimquisition because of my crappy internet...)
http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/18/apple-microsoft-sopa-support/
If you're interested in emailing your rep about this go here
http://americancensorship.org/
If I had the space, I'd put every single company in there -- game or otherwise. They can all eat it.
pokota: to be fair you do tend to go into a lot of sterling's articles with some sort of criticism - until I stopped reading your comments while imagining a spittle-flecked rant, I kinda had the same idea about you.
Sorry! It's tough to judge an on the line quote when you try to pitch fork Jim daily.
Yes, I wish that humanity to be so advanced that when given full freedom the first thing they do is not acting like douches and respect it other rights.
Since it is not the case, everyone must sit down and discuss laws who protect the rights of the majority who don't use the internet for crimes while punishing the criminals.
it does not look like SOPA is this series of laws the internet needs, but nobody is really showing us what SOPA says, just saying how bad it is. Regardless, one day the internet will stop being the digital version of wild west. Instead of defending the status quo, maybe it is time for internet users discuss how to regulate it and what is fair for everyone.
I was wondering who the fuck you were yammering at.
@SOPA
Fuck off.
Hey, I don't yammer assho-
*looks at my previous posts*
... goddammit.
Don't sit idly by just because you are outside the US and think it won't really do anything to you. Contact your local government and let them know that you want your country standing up against Hollywood, Big Business Bullies, and the US government for trying to pass a law that affects those who are not citizens of the US. Help make this a world issue and stand up for your rights to not have your Internet censored by a country that you don't even live in.
The best part about this law, and something that I wish Jim had touched on, is the Internet Piracy part of it and the complete smoke screen that this lie is. That is what supporters of SOPA claim this is meant for, to stop Internet IP infringement and piracy. In truth, it will not stop IP infringement and piracy at all, even for US citizens. All it does is give Big Business, Hollywood, and anyone else with more lawyers than you unprecedented power over the Internet and censorship.
This is a very informative video, make sure to check it out if you want to get more details on what this law could affect (you could do prison time for singing a song you like and posting it on a website like YouTube): http://vimeo.com/31100268
I totally agree with you, I wish gamers would grow the fuck up and actually talk about this very important issue like mature adults but thats not gonna happen anytime soon
and I'm ROLFing my ass off that A guy with the handle of
ManWithNoName wants the internet to stop being the digital version of the wild wild west
Alot will be lost yeah but it wont be the end of the internet; just Americas input