GnarlyShillelagh: Sopa Is Fuckin' Dead!!!!

GnarlyShillelagh 01.20.12	MEDIAFIYAHHHHHHH
thumbcrusher 01.20.12	is PIPA though?
Eclecticist 01.20.12	too bad Megaupload is gone
Inveigh 01.20.12	both SOPA and PIPA were killed today: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71720.html
bloc 01.20.12	Is Mega still gone? : (
JWT155 01.20.12	Pippa Middleton better not be dead...
Auschwitz 01.20.12	this shit happens to me all the time...ill start listening to something a lot and then ill come on sputnik and see people recing it and putting it on their lists and threads about it being bumped. sputconnection.
AGuyIsWatchingYou 01.20.12	"Is Mega still gone? : (" http://megavideo.bz/ Make of it what you will.
Auschwitz 01.20.12	oh yeah, but FUCK YEAH FUCK SOPA WHOOOOO WE DID IT. uhh, what about PIPA
ConsiderPhlebas 01.20.12	Reason to celebrate
thumbcrusher 01.20.12	^ post no.4
Auschwitz 01.20.12	missed that.
Recspecs 01.20.12	Hell yeah. Internet-1, Pigs-0.
fsharptrit0ne 01.20.12	pipa's gone too
GnarlyShillelagh 01.20.12	Auschwitz what album are you talking about?
Horsehammer 01.20.12	Hell yeah. Internet-1, Pigs-0. ^^ this right here
pizzamachine 01.20.12	It's not dead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more
loveisamixtape 01.20.12	PIPA isn't dead yet.
GnarlyShillelagh 01.20.12	It's lost a significant amount of steam. If they have to push it back like that, it's unlikely they'll be able to recover the way they'd like to.
Auschwitz 01.20.12	i hope its done for. i do not like the idea of corporations and the government controlling what we can and cannot see on the internet.
Horsehammer 01.20.12	What's the best way for me to help? (for U.S. citizens) The most effective action you can take is to call your representatives in both houses of Congress, and tell them you oppose SOPA, PIPA, and the thinking behind them. is this some kind of joke? bcuz im not laughing
fsharptrit0ne 01.20.12	lamar smith probably shit his pants because of the death threats
someguest 01.20.12	it's time to push it through in secret sessions like Obamacare that's what they'll end up doing
Horsehammer 01.20.12	this is gay. they take infringed content? whats next? Porn? i swear to god, the government is not gonna block me from whacking off, i can tell you that right now!
TheSpirit 01.20.12	http://maddox.xmission.com/ for some insight
thumbcrusher 01.20.12	these laws sucked cause they tried to pass them off as anti piracy stuff - so as to stop people illegally getting stuff from the internet. but those things were already illegal obviously so the new laws were must have been something much bigger, nastier, controlling and intruding and shizz. which they were.
Hyperion1001 01.20.12	i helped stop it because i made a facebook post
Acanthus 01.20.12	You don't internet much do you :P ?
thumbcrusher 01.20.12	who me?
Acanthus 01.20.12	Nah OP, SOPA can't die that easily.
GnarlyShillelagh 01.20.12	lol, obv it just seemed like the best title in light of recent events. Also it prompted discussion didn't it?
linchpin313 01.20.12	Postponed...
Acanthus 01.20.12	Indeed it did a bit, just had to poke fun at you for a minute there.
someguest 01.20.12	Got laid last night!!!! Ok not really we just talked but I'm really close!
GnarlyShillelagh 01.20.12	haha it's all good
MMX 01.20.12	The bill may be dead but I can almost guarantee they will try pass something similar to this again
Auschwitz 01.20.12	@spirit everything in that article was oh so true.
Trebor. 01.20.12	Not much of a victory considering the people who proposed it still have jobs and will continue to fuck shit up as long as they are in office
Auschwitz 01.20.12	im wondering why we didnt get the same response for the national defense authorization act.
anarchistfish 01.20.12	"In a steaming response to Reid's announcement, the Vermont Democrat said Internet thieves in China and Russia "are smugly watching how the United States Senate decided it was not even worth debating how to stop the overseas criminals from draining our economy.”" Is he a fucking retard
someguest 01.20.12	Free speech and piracy always find a medium. You guys are stupid for worrying about this thing.
thumbcrusher 01.20.12	russia has pretty lax copyright laws anyway, lots of tablature sites are based there cause their not doing anything against russian law
Auschwitz 01.20.12	"You guys are stupid for worrying about this thing." youre stupid for not worrying about the increasing amount of bills that are cutting down on our freedoms.
ChuckyTruant 01.20.12	At least the interwebs are safe for now.
someguest 01.20.12	"youre stupid for not worrying about the increasing amount of bills that are cutting down on our freedoms." you've never had freedom in the first place, you've just been insignificant to anyone in power.
thumbcrusher 01.20.12	i live in the uk where my freedoms have already been taken away so i have nothing more to worry about
PuddlesPuddles 01.20.12	How cute Of course it didn't fucking pass, the point was to distract you with the thing people care about the most right now, the internet. So yes, bravo, your facebook petitions and reddit awareness defeated this ghost of an enemy
Auschwitz 01.20.12	youre right. maybe we should change the laws and live in a fascist country where we have no choices or rights because, you know, we we never had freedom in the first place.
someguest 01.20.12	how fitting
Trebor. 01.20.12	well I mean you technically don't have true freedom or rights as the government could do whatever the fuck they want to you if they saw fit (japanese internment etc.)
Auschwitz 01.20.12	"Of course it didn't fucking pass, the point was to distract you with the thing people care about the most right now, the internet. So yes, bravo, your facebook petitions and reddit awareness defeated this ghost of an enemy" i thought of this as a possibility, but people just dont care about the national defense authorization act because they think it doesnt apply to them and theyre too fucking stupid to realize how it could be abused. never give a government that kind of power and trust them not to abuse it.
someguest 01.20.12	don't use logic with Auschwitz he's focused on the extremes
PuddlesPuddles 01.20.12	If a government wanted to take away rights, it would be done. They wouldn't have it open for debate and it surely wouldn't be up to our stoner friends' facebook statuses and John Lennon quotes to stop it
someguest 01.20.12	^.
Auschwitz 01.20.12	when they pass bills "legally" people accept their loss of rights. this way there is no struggle, in fact, they are fooled into supporting it. so no, they could not just take away all of our rights just like that. they have to do it slowly. if you woke up tomorrow and it was 1984 (the book) people would be pissed. there are millions of people here who would surely overthrow the government. the military wouldnt even stand behind it, so there would be no one to enforce it. you have to get them to support their loss of freedoms first. if youre talking on a smaller scale, then yeah, they can basically do whatever they want, as long as the majority of people arent being affected they wont care.
Trebor. 01.20.12	the military wouldnt even stand behind it You do realize soldiers are brainwashed to obey the government at any cost right? Why the fuck would anyone agree to go to Afghanistan if this wasn't true?
MMX 01.20.12	lolol trebor
Auschwitz 01.20.12	@trebor youve got a point there...
MalleusMaleficarum 01.20.12	youre a little late on 3 but better than never i guess
ultradevilgod 01.20.12	Yeah! gotta love free downloads,baby!
Restrikted 01.20.12	YEAH WE'RE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE DFREERERERKLAS;SKDJFKLASDFJ
Jruined 01.20.12	Watch out for the when they roll the language of these bills into another. I'm still not sure why there was no similar outcry to the NDAA, then again it wasn't really talked about in the media until very recently (after it was signed in of course).
Midjicka 01.20.12	it's not dead, only shelved. it can be brought back at any time
Recspecs 01.21.12	Agreed. But it has lost some steam as aforementioned in the thread.