Stop the Internet "Blacklist" Legislation ('S.O.P.A.' bill)

Already contacted my rep and senators. Not that I'm terribly afraid that this bill will actually go through, but it makes me feel better that I at least did my part, no matter how small it was.

I am a fucking idiot. Why? I read the thread 'Is Fakku Safe from SOPA?' thought, "Fuck yeah! SOPA won't get passed on our watch!" I clicked 'yes'. Then I read the actual question. Someone, please kill me.

Wait. 95+4 = 100???? All I can say is, how?????

I see Fakku protesting in its own way. Nice.

If I was to be asked, "Do you support SOPA or PIPA?" I would reply with:

Hmmmm possibly not. but here's this petition we can all sigh and hope for the best

Wanted to spread this: Serious Trouble if they actually atempt this crap. As if we didn't lose enough faith in politicians already.

This must not happen. Things like this is only a problem because parents are doing a half-assed job of monitoring their under-aged children. Even if congress isn't going to take this seriously I'd still say that this is a direct threat to our rights.

That's cute, you think this is about money. This isn't about money, it's about control.



What you fail to understand is this isn't filtering, this is outright censorship. It puts control over the flow of information into the hands of major corporations via the powers of the Federal Government. In other words, it gives companies the powers of our federal government

No hes not. He is protesting it. If this law goes through FB would become nothing and would get shut down in a second.

Meh without any consideration to how much I hate the idea of SOPA on the basis it moots international law and how I know it won't be passed, it's not like they are going out of their way to target a site like Fakku. The only way their plan will get them ANY political capital or net benefit is if they were to target sites that cause pirating of music and mainstream Region-01/00 movies. While this does encompass a lot of major sites, violates countless other laws, is unconstitutional by text, is inpopular, and is all together a steaming pile of lobbyist infected bullshit, the hentai-animu industry and community is safe because of a lack of generic popularity and considering they would be targeting another country and restricting it's citizens who are not within US jurisdiction by edicting copyright laws that are stapled into region-02

Lol but then they would be retarded for not being consequential. Either way, what is fakku if not illegal free manga and anime?

It is isn't it? just in case you hadn't noticed Control and Money come hand in hand.

But how would i know, i just do it everyday.

I like how everyone is panicking and giving this attention now, after the bill has already effectively died for at least the rest of this year.

How the hell voted "YES" ??

Knowing the bill has effectively died is a relieve.

I'll just say this... If SOPA gets passed, whoever is sitting in the White House would be facing an angry mob w/ pickets and torches.

And constant cyber attacks and various information leaks...

Im not all that clear on what is happening.
So whats going on, one day everything is great and the next, im see black bars, or titles being marked out.
This is an outrage.
I was on imvu and people said it was some guy trying to get rid of online porn?
Is this true?

Ken Akamatsu had been trying to set up a method by which the "pirating" would at least transfer some residue revenue back to the artists. The only fee which his experimental site took was the cost of paying for the site. Meanwhile, the manga aggregators collect money on their millions of pageviews. The info below copied from bakabt's forumthread on online manga reading:

Estimated earnings of online manga reader sites (revenue doesn't go to authors):

Mangareader.net: Daily Ad Revenue $4,008
via http://www.estimurl.com/US/www.mangareader.net

Mangafox.com: Daily Ad Revenue $3,357
via http://www.estimurl.com/US/www.mangafox.com

Mangastream.com: Daily Ad Revenue $2,937
via http://www.estimurl.com/US/www.mangastream.com

The above info obtained from a user post at the scanlator website for
A-Team at http:www.ipitydafoo.com




SOPA doesn't have to be international to bother Fakku. ANYONE (not just the copyright holder) can complain under SOPA about a website that: (a) Has USA citizens on its staff (b) or is hosted on a server in the USA (c) or is on a server (anywhere in the world) run by a company that has offices in the USA. Remember, if a FCC covered communications company (such as internet) has actual offices in the USA, it must then comply by USA laws.