01-21-2012, 07:58 AM
(01-20-2012, 07:53 PM)DioShiba Wrote: So apparently it's been just announced today that SOPA and PIPA have been postponed today
http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/20/technolo...postponed/
I don't know if this makes you happy but fuck someone tell congress to burn the bills already, postponing it isn't enough.
They postponed it because they know the affect the recent protests will have on the bill. And they think that by the time the bill comes around again, the general population will have forgotten about it. It is risky for sites like wikipedia to blackout again ever time the bill rolls around, meaning the protest will lost steam.
Last time I checked the US was supposed to be a democracy not a dictatorship, but when the majority of the population is against a bill like this and they still consider listening to a small group of rich suits in hollywood over their own people the lines start the become blurred.