So much effort on tackling SOPA. Three months later, there's a bill titled Stop Online Child Pornography. Then there's a lot of PR issues.<p>The companies should be demanding Internet Freedom bills to replace SOPA, DMCA, PROTECT-IP, COICA, CEST, OPENA, ACTA and more.<p>Take the fight back against the anti-Internet companies in the war against the Internet.
"At stake, say supporters, are American jobs. Every free piece of content scraped to be sold, or given away, online takes money out of the pockets of record companies, movie producers and other content creators and their millions of employees.
Pharmaceutical companies, sports leagues and video-game makers have also voiced support.
"Especially in this time of economic recovery, we cannot stand by and watch while American companies and the jobs they support are being bled by foreign criminals who are taking advantage of a massive loophole in our law enforcement capabilities," wrote Steve Tepp, who works on counterfeiting and piracy issues for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "These illicit enterprises are not tolerated in the brick and mortar marketplace, so why would we allow them to flourish unchecked online?""<p>Rhetoric of SOPA supporters > Rhetoric of SOPA detractors, when it comes to winning public support. The message needs to be streamlined...
It's not mentioned in the article, but CNN has a dog in this fight with their iReport service. They receive and post a lot of user-generated content nowadays.
I am opposed to SOPA in the strongest sense possible coming from a nation where majority of internet users cannot afford content(music, software) at market prices let alone afford a good internet connection.<p>Was watching the president of the Motion Picture Association of America talk on Bloomberg West about their reasons for supporting SOPA and why SOPA is important and that guy(and those like him) is good at what he does. Those opposed to SOPA for now have confined the fight to blogs and videos on Youtube but we need to take the fight where it matters, to Washington and sway those who should be swayed to stop this thing.<p>Not an American citizen but american tech companies opposed to this should be talking to their lobbyists and not just posting statements on their sites
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