Who heard the message? At least 31 senators and the House members declared their opposition to the bills today--28 of them are Republicans.
Odd...that I always hear that it's the Democrats who are the tech and web savvy ones.
But it's the GOP who are "with it."
A special shout-out goes to the Illinois members of Congress who saw the light today: Congressmen John Shimkus of Collinsville, Adam Kinzinger of Manteno, Bob Dold of Kenilworth, Joe Walsh of McHenry, and Senator Mark Kirk of Highland Park--all of them are Republicans.
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The reason why is pretty obvious. Dems can't switch because they need Hollywood money. GOP members were never going to get that money anyway, and so they aren't losing anything by changing their support to opposition. Dems can't afford to do that.
Let me quote firedoglake (h/t Ann Althouse)
"The problematic figures here are the institutional Congressional Democrats, the ones who don’t have an election coming up, or whose seats are safe, who simply welcome the campaign checks, mostly from the entertainment industry, and the power and influence that goes along with them...."
So, will they realize that they need to make all seats compeditive?
Anyone who reads "Big Hollywood" knows the solution to this conundrum. The Dems have been given both money and huge "in kind" contributions in the form of the purposeful left political slant of many mainstream movies for decades.
Why to these numbnutz's get praise for changing their minds today? Isn't it pretty appalling that they supported this steaming heap of pungent legislation in the first place?
They get praise for listening to their constituents and not the people sending in big campaign contributions.
The party-affiliation difference still is a surprise to me, even as a long-time R.
Most of our Congress types were for it to "stop piracy" of "intellectual property" but simply did not consider the scope of what RIAA/MPAA asked for - which is sort-of understandable.
Come to that, most posts I have seen are naout RIAA and MPAA. But SOPA could kill a lot more than a site that "shares" a filmed Lady Gaga concert. Do a search for "Climategate" and look at how many items there are. Even though the EMails involved were [mostly] not copyrighted, there is the probability they were stolen. SOPA/PIPA would require killing access to any site found by that search. Not just blogs: The Times of London, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald... And any paper that links to them, or to AP, UPI, Agence France Presse... This is why GOOGLE and other search sites were against it, and THAT is probably the first millions of people (including Congresscritters) heard of the problems.
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