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General discussion (archive)SOPA apparently shelved in favour of nigh-identical PIPA(19 posts)(19 posts)
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Posted January 17, 2012
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adambiser: Yeah, I'd heard that SOPA was shelved, but it needs outright destroyed and actually legislature needs to be put in place to prevent a SOPA-variant from starting again.
Perhaps it may be better that the law should pass then be defeated in a court of law on a constitutional issue.

Unfortunately there are too many people in the federal government that were elected based on their opposition to another court case that it may be impossible to trust our judicial system anymore, since these people do have an effect on the composition of the highest court of law in this country.

We need to start electing people based on their response to the supreme court decision making corporations legally identical to individual humans, in order to recover from the current fad for passing bills like this.
Posted January 17, 2012
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Shloulet: Unfortunately there are too many people in the federal government that were elected based on their opposition to another court case ..
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Shloulet: We need to start electing people based on their response to the supreme court decision
I know what you're saying, but to me, these are contradictory statements

Passing and being defeated would be another way, I'd hate to think that it should pass and win.
Posted January 17, 2012
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DarrkPhoenix: ...
You did read why it was shelved, right? It was shelved because it was SOPA. It was shelved because of everything about it. So what hope is there for that, a redrafted version of that or a bill only slightly different to that passing when that's the attitude with which it's met?

Thankfully none. At least none until the next election...
Posted January 17, 2012
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Navagon: You did read why it was shelved, right? It was shelved because it was SOPA. It was shelved because of everything about it. So what hope is there for that, a redrafted version of that or a bill only slightly different to that passing when that's the attitude with which it's met?
Actually, seems it came back from the dead much faster than I expected. Unfortunately our "democracy" here in the US is so dysfunctional that even massive public opposition to proposed legislation doesn't stop legislators from trying to pass it- they just make sure that enough attention is deflected from it or that it's passed far enough away from an election that it doesn't significantly hurt their chances of getting re-elected (and the fact that a huge amount of the electorate here in the US is apathetic, uninformed, or morons- often a combination of all three- doesn't help things one bit).
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