[ale] OT - Looking like SOPA is dead and burried, but PIPA is still in play...

[Jim Kinney]

I don't think change from within is possible for corporations of the size
and reach that Aaron rants about. They seem to respond only to income and
image pressure to varying degrees.
I LIKE the idea of only registered votors can give resources to election or
issue causes.
"Counterfit" handbags and the like could be quelled with only protecting
American manufactured goods. Make that super priced pair of jeans in
slave-labor land and it can be faked with US impunity. Fake a product made
here and all hell will break loose. This would have an interesting impact
:-)
On Jan 16, 2012 4:13 PM, "JD" <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

> On 01/16/2012 02:30 PM, Aaron Ruscetta wrote:
> > It looks like SOPA (personally dubbed the Spit On Privacy Act) is dead:
> > <https://www.examiner.com/computers-in-denver/house-kills-sopa>
> >
> > We need to stay vigilant, though, to be sure it stays dead, and also
> > focus protest against PIPA (personally dubbed the Pervert IP Act).
> >
> > I'm in favor of a full blackout of ALE on the 18th.
> >
> > Unfortunately, even when we've blown the heads off of these two
> > heinous monsters, there is no doubt that more brain eating, culture
> > killing, freedom hating legislative zombies will be endlessly spawned
> > by the corporapist media conglomerates. It will take a concerted,
> > constant, and global vigil for freedom and free speech and democracy
> > and meritocracy on the internet to survive the perpetual threats from
> > totalitarian regimes, industrial capitalism and the corporate welfare
> state.
> >
>
> Aaron, you do realize that many people here work at corporations, right?
>  We
> like to pay our mortgages.  Being paid is a good thing.  Some probably
> even work
> for Turner, TBS, Cox, Comcast, AT&T, or record companies.  Changing the
> corporate culture is easier from inside than outside.
>
> OTOH, I don't believe that anyone who can't vote in an election should be
> allowed to contribute any money to politics, PACS, lobbyist OR elections.
> Companies are not people regardless of what a conservative judicial branch
> rules.
>
> I don't have a proposal to reduce imported copycat/counterfeit shoes, bags,
> clothing, drugs, etc. However, I'd love to hear your proposed solution,
> assuming
> you believe this current law is good for the USA.
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