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Get ready . . . . the SOPA is about to wash us off the internet.

Just like ALL legislation which is labeled "bi-partisan" , political speech will be squelched on the internet.

Whenever a piece of legislation is designed to specifically interfere with constitutionally protected rights, privileges and powers, it will surely have the chilling effect of LOSING those same protections and causing loss of others. The exact details will be temporarily lost in the 1000s of pages of the document until such time as the public will have time to read and analyze the bill. By then, of course, it'll be too late to do anything about it. It's the way congress has acted to pass legislation they KNOW the citizens will object to. Remember the Pelosi (pass) , "we have to pass the bill before we can tell you what's in it" !!

SOPA, Internet Censorship Bill, Lauded By Both Parties In Key House Hearing

December 27, 2011

SOPA is the end of us, say bloggers

POLITICO

By TIM MAK | 12/27/11 12:37 PM EST

The conservative and liberal blogospheres are unifying behind opposition to Congress’s Stop Online Piracy Act, with right-leaning bloggers aruging their very existence could be wiped out if the anti-piracy bill passes.

“If either the U.S. Senate’s Protect IP Act (PIPA) & the U.S. House’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) become law, political blogs such as Red Mass Group [conservative] & Blue Mass Group [liberal] will cease to exist,” wrote a blogger at Red Mass Group.

Some have asserted that the controversial measures would criminalize pages and blogs that link to foreign websites dedicated to online piracy. In particular, this has concerned search engines like Google, which could face massive liability if some form of the bill passes, some say.

“Of course, restrictions of results provided by Internet search engines amount to just that: prior restraint of their free expression of future results. Google and others, under SOPA, are told what they can or can’t publish before they publish it. Kill. The. Bill,” conservative blogger Neil Stevens argued at RedState.

Liberals had their own spin on it, cheering on the fact that corporate support for SOPA was starting to subside.

In particular, GoDaddy, a domain registration firm, suffered a spectacularly bad round of PR when it came out in support of the measures. But after a grass-roots campaign to boycott the firm, driven by Reddit, an online community, and others, GoDaddy reversed course and renounced its support.

“Some good news on the SOPA front: Its corporate base of supporters is starting to crumble,” David Dayden wrote at Firedoglake. “GoDaddy is not alone. Scores of law firms are requesting their names be removed from the Judiciary Committee’s official list of SOPA supporters.”

In the blogosphere, the trajectory of the bill seemed set — that it is destined for failure if the pressure of the online community is kept up.

“The dynamic is clear. Once SOPA — and its Senate counterpart, Protecting IP Act, or PIPA — became high-profile among the Internet community, the lazy endorsements from companies and various hangers-on became toxic. And now, those supporters are scrambling, hollowing out the actual support for the bill. Suddenly, a bill with ‘widespread’ corporate support doesn’t have much support at all,” Dayden said.

Conservatives took a slightly different tact, though with similar disdain for the anti-piracy measures.

Indeed, blogger Erick Erickson said that he would encourage a primary for any Republican who supports the bill.

“I love Marsha Blackburn. She is a delightful lady and a solidly conservative member of Congress. And I am pledging right now that I will do everything in my power to defeat her in her 2012 reelection bid” due to her co-sponsorship for SOPA, Erickson wrote at RedState. “Congress has proven it does not understand the Internet. Perhaps they will understand brute strength against them at the ballot box. If members of Congress do not pull their name from co-sponsorship of SOPA, the left and right should pledge to defeat each and every one of them.”

This is an actionable cause for REAL CONSERVATIVES and without some citizen input this bill looks like it could pass. Contact your elected representatives and give them a definite thumbs down.

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Comment by Leon Ewers on December 28, 2011 at 2:23pm: The corporations can't support anything, they can't be envolve in government at all, not even as contributors, neither can unions or foundations or any other non-human person. The government is for the People, natural born humans not some made up fake non-human person. This is why we had the revolutionary war.
You people better wake up or you will be slaves to non-human persons. This is what the globalist powers to be want.