Die, you misbegotten demon-spawn of corporate greed! Die, and we shall dance on your grave!

[taste_is_sweet]

Apparently SOPA and PIPA are not as dead as I thought. BOO.

I realize this is only important for the US, but BOO-YAH!

SOPA Shelved After Veto Threat | The Mary Sue

::High-fives everyone who emailed or called their congressperson::

Of course, this doesn't guarantee that Stop Online Piracy Act (or it's bastard child, PIPA--Protect IP Act) won't rear their ugly, ugly heads again (especially if Obama loses the next election), but right now this is a great blow for freedom of expression in the US, and I am one very happy camper.

Comments

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

Yay! Good news!

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

*does the dance of joy*

[tigertale7.livejournal.com]

I am super thrilled about this! YES! ::fistpump::

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

That is AWESOME!

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Brilliant news! Let's hope the bugger stays dead.

[kimboosan.livejournal.com]

WOO HOOOOO!!!!! *high fives*

[brockulfsen.livejournal.com]

Not just the USA. Australia is taking a different path, but is headed in the same direction with an internet "Filter" on unspecifiedly "illegal" content coupled with a single government controlled bandwidth wholesaler, the NBN.

[reedfem.livejournal.com]

I actually wrote all my congressmen about this. A couple even wrote back. Amazing.

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Yes! Except it turns out the article I linked to was wrong. There has been no veto threat and it will still be voted on Monday. D:

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Apparently I was wrong! It's being voted on on Monday! The article had faulty information. D:

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

I was! But it turns out the article I linked to was wrong. There was no veto threat and the bills are still being voted on on Monday. D:

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

It was! Until I found out that the article I linked to was wrong! There was no veto threat. The bills are being voted on on Monday. :(

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

It's not dead yet, unfortunately. Apparently the article I linked to was wrong. Let's hope Monday really does kill it!

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

::High fives back::

But unfortunately the article I linked to was wrong. There was no veto threat. Hopefully it won't actually end up passing!

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Oh, that doesn't sound good! Can anything be done about it?

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I got an email reply, too. Though it was just a form letter. Hopefully they really are listening.

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

God I hope so - I'm all for taking a stake to it... and maybe silver bullets, fire, brimstone, cement boots... hey, I'm an old-style kinda gal *g*

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Two of the major sponsors of the bills have backed down since the web protests yesterday so fingers crossed.

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

::CROSSES FINGERS!::

Love your icon--perfect. :D

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Hey petal, it's a small net. :D

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

It's by timepunching if you'd like to use it. Unfortunately, I get to use it quite often.

[kimboosan.livejournal.com]

Well c'mon, all the BEST people are here! ♥

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

It was nice of you to let me in anyway. ♥

[kimboosan.livejournal.com]

Oh please, you rode up in the same basket I did! ;)

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

It is a very nice basket. *g*

[brockulfsen.livejournal.com]

We've been fighting it for almost 10 years, through a Coalition (Right Wing) government and a Labor (Center-right Wing) replacement with an Opus Dei Theofascist communications minister.

It won't die.

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

That sucks. I hope your next government is a little more left of centre.

[brockulfsen.livejournal.com]

Labor is the Left Wing party, replaced the Coalition (now known in opposition as the No-alition), and the Filter (block everything "illegal" at ISP level) survived the change of government.

When the biggest ISPs pointed out it was utterly unworkable, possibly unconstitutional and clearly insane, the government imposed a national single broadband service, the NBN so it could impose the filter above the ISP level...

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Wow. And I here I was thinking that Australia would be immune to that kind of control. Sorry you have to go through that.