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SOPA and PIPA

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The movement to fight against SOPA and PIPA, bills that would destroy much of what the internet is good for, is winning. When Marco Rubio and John Cornyn back away from a corporate-driven bill, you know it is dead. It’s another of the still too few but growing examples of how people are effectively protesting the corporate dominated world. Personally, while I’m glad Wikipedia stepped up to the plate on this and shut down its site for the day, I would have opposed, say, shutting down LGM, because what good would it possibly do? It’s better to talk about this stuff.

And the one point worth discussing that I have is to wonder what causes some of our most progressive legislators to support such a bad bill. Patrick Leahy is a big mover of SOPA, Al Franken of PIPA. This kind of thing is hardly uncommon. I guess they see something as a problem and make poor decisions on how to fight it. Or they are looking for huge campaign donations. But it’s frustrating.

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