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AZ Progressive

(3,411 posts)
Sat Dec 17, 2011, 02:38 PM Dec 2011

SOPA and the War on the 99%

Is the SOPA bill and the seemingly supportive Congress of it, as well as such fascist legislation can be considered and even passed nowadays, proof alone that there is a War on the 99%?

What does it mean for the future if we all don't rise up and passionately protest?

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SOPA and the War on the 99% (Original Post) AZ Progressive Dec 2011 OP
Let them continue to take away our money and forms of entertainment... Modern_Matthew Dec 2011 #1
SOPA does a little more than protect Disney and Comcast. Consider...... wandy Dec 2011 #2
 

Modern_Matthew

(1,604 posts)
1. Let them continue to take away our money and forms of entertainment...
Sat Dec 17, 2011, 02:48 PM
Dec 2011

As food prices continue to soar. I can't wait to see how that works out for them... because I know it will end well for all of us.

wandy

(3,539 posts)
2. SOPA does a little more than protect Disney and Comcast. Consider......
Sat Dec 17, 2011, 06:56 PM
Dec 2011

Currently the Internet is sort of a free for all. Lot's of good stuff out their. But theirs a lot of bad out their, so beware.
I'll forgo going into the XXX sights for now, however in terms of copy protection their are some problems.
Here we visit the Pirate Bay.
http://thepiratebay.org/
Theirs only one reason to run the Jolly Roger up the mask their me mates, and we'll be stealing stuff.
And then again theirs civel unrest.
Warning this video may be unnerving. You need watch only long enough to notice the insignia on the police officers arm.
Protestors Pepper Sprayed


Were that logo to carry the proper copyright this video would never have gone viral. What you don't know wont distress you.
And of course the Internet can prove offensive. Sometimes to people in power.
Rick Santorum Wants Google to Remove........
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/219373/20110924/santorum-google-savage-results-censor-republican.htm
No problem, just copyright the phrase 'Frothy liquid..............'.
Nuff said.
So hay, how do you think that SOPA is going to work out for you?
I don't know. Ask the Chinese. Go ask an Egyptian.
Wandy
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