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SOPA (yeah yeah I know, just read the thing)
14 years ago
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"We are made to persist."
I'm going to quote ![[koh]](//a.furaffinity.net/20251220/[koh].gif "[koh]")
[koh] here, because he said it better than me:
"You know when a topic comes up and someone eventually says "Stop making journals about this!" ?
This is *not* one of those times. Every single one of us should have a SOPA journal up. Even if you agree with it, you should get your opinions out there and spark conversation because this deserves the world's attention and all it has received is a media blackout."
I will admit that I haven't read the actual language of the bill itself. It's enough, for me, to have it explained. Legal-ese is byzantine to me, I have had enough of reading it trying to deal with our broken social security system, and if you know me you know why.
As for my opinion on this bill, I think its evidence of a bigger problem. I'm not as militant as I have been in the past about certain ideas, and that's probably for the better as aggression combined with misinformation is dangerous even if it is well-intentioned. Even so, this needs to be stopped. Most of modern economics, unless I'm much mistaken, fails to look at things in the long term. Big business has been using tactics to expand for quite sometime now that focus on immediate gratification with little attention to long term consequences, which is in my opinion why we're looking at something like this bill now. This is a long term consequence of the internet renaissance, and it's not even that long term; we saw the beginnings of why this bill exists what, ten, twelve years ago? Surely not much more than that. The notion of instant gratification regardless of the consequences needs to be done away with.
Also, This video was recommended to me. Go watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhwuXNv8fJM
![[koh]](http://a.furaffinity.net/20251220/[koh].gif "[koh]")
[koh] here, because he said it better than me:"You know when a topic comes up and someone eventually says "Stop making journals about this!" ?
This is *not* one of those times. Every single one of us should have a SOPA journal up. Even if you agree with it, you should get your opinions out there and spark conversation because this deserves the world's attention and all it has received is a media blackout."
I will admit that I haven't read the actual language of the bill itself. It's enough, for me, to have it explained. Legal-ese is byzantine to me, I have had enough of reading it trying to deal with our broken social security system, and if you know me you know why.
As for my opinion on this bill, I think its evidence of a bigger problem. I'm not as militant as I have been in the past about certain ideas, and that's probably for the better as aggression combined with misinformation is dangerous even if it is well-intentioned. Even so, this needs to be stopped. Most of modern economics, unless I'm much mistaken, fails to look at things in the long term. Big business has been using tactics to expand for quite sometime now that focus on immediate gratification with little attention to long term consequences, which is in my opinion why we're looking at something like this bill now. This is a long term consequence of the internet renaissance, and it's not even that long term; we saw the beginnings of why this bill exists what, ten, twelve years ago? Surely not much more than that. The notion of instant gratification regardless of the consequences needs to be done away with.
Also, This video was recommended to me. Go watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhwuXNv8fJM
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But as far as my understanding about it goes, this sounds like posibly one of the worst ideas government has ever had. And that's saying something, given the level of foolish ideas they've had. you know what I'm talking about. but still...this 'sopa' thing threatens FA, as much as any other place, too.
Step 1) Create an account with some government website
Step 2) Upload copywritten material as your icon
Step 3) Paste an unquoted line from an article
Step 4) e-mail as a watchdog indicating copywritten material on a website to the people in charge of enforcing SOPA
Step 5) watch as the government site is forced offline cause it contains copywritten material.
Optional: Repeat with large influencial companies in support of SOPA, Universities with major influence, other large organizations
Though the act is retarded, if it came into effect I could see this being a means of showing how retarded it is.