taken from: http://osewalrus.livejournal.com/972061.html
First, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) is breaking ranks with other
members of the IP Mafia and are reversing their previous support for
SOPA.
http://blog.bsa.org/2011/11/21/sopa-needs-work-to-address-innovation-considerations/
(previous supporting statement here)
Similarly,
this op ed in the Daily Caller is highly significant as it negates the
effort to persuade the Tea Party and other Libertarians opposed to
Internet regulation that SOPA is utterly benign and only socialist orgs
like my employer oppose it.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/21/sopa-is-a-threat-to-american-internet-leadership/
Next,
it is wroth noting how much damage SOPA is doing to our foreign policy
and pro-democracy initiatives. Russia and Al-Jazeera are saying the U.S.
now ranks with China in Internet censorship. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111120/22021716846/how-other-parts-world-view-sopa.shtml
These stand in sharp contrast to efforts by the RIAA and the MPAA to downplay the problems with the bill:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57320417-93/riaa-chief-copyright-bills-wont-kill-the-internet/?tag=mncol;txt
http://riaa.org/blog.php?content_selector=riaa-news-blog&blog_selector=RIAA%20QuestionTo-Rogue-Sites-Critics-&blog_type=&news_month_filter=11&news_year_filter=2011
http://blog.mpaa.org/BlogOS/post/2011/11/15/Rogue-Sites-Legislation-and-the-DMCA-.aspx
http://blog.mpaa.org/BlogOS/post/2011/11/16/Remember-the-iPod-.aspx
Finally, PBS analyzes how the Internet exploded over this issue, with a nice shout out to PK at the end.
http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2011/11/dontbreaktheinternet-how-the-web-became-a-political-force-vs-sopa322.html
First, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) is breaking ranks with other
members of the IP Mafia and are reversing their previous support for
SOPA.
http://blog.bsa.org/2011/11/21/sopa-needs-work-to-address-innovation-considerations/
(previous supporting statement here)
Similarly,
this op ed in the Daily Caller is highly significant as it negates the
effort to persuade the Tea Party and other Libertarians opposed to
Internet regulation that SOPA is utterly benign and only socialist orgs
like my employer oppose it.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/21/sopa-is-a-threat-to-american-internet-leadership/
Next,
it is wroth noting how much damage SOPA is doing to our foreign policy
and pro-democracy initiatives. Russia and Al-Jazeera are saying the U.S.
now ranks with China in Internet censorship. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111120/22021716846/how-other-parts-world-view-sopa.shtml
These stand in sharp contrast to efforts by the RIAA and the MPAA to downplay the problems with the bill:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57320417-93/riaa-chief-copyright-bills-wont-kill-the-internet/?tag=mncol;txt
http://riaa.org/blog.php?content_selector=riaa-news-blog&blog_selector=RIAA%20QuestionTo-Rogue-Sites-Critics-&blog_type=&news_month_filter=11&news_year_filter=2011
http://blog.mpaa.org/BlogOS/post/2011/11/15/Rogue-Sites-Legislation-and-the-DMCA-.aspx
http://blog.mpaa.org/BlogOS/post/2011/11/16/Remember-the-iPod-.aspx
Finally, PBS analyzes how the Internet exploded over this issue, with a nice shout out to PK at the end.
http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2011/11/dontbreaktheinternet-how-the-web-became-a-political-force-vs-sopa322.html
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg