Black March

[Pebkio]

Continued support of SOPA on their part will only reflect poorly upon them, which will affect their public image and bottom line, which WILL make them reconsider. Like the ESA, one way or another the MPAA will likely be forced to address the public's overwhelming opposition.

Now, if like many others you're going to sit here and argue that "just because the ESA has publicly backed out doesn't mean they they'll stop privately supporting it with money and stuff" I'm going to have to kindly tell you put a sock in it and take your wild speculations elsewhere. I'm not going to entertain ghosts and boogeymen propagated by the paranoid and easily frightened.

No... SOPA is done, way too many negative connotations to pass. But I wouldn't even begin to sit here and think that they won't be putting forth something just like it... maybe handle it better. Introduce it around Christmas, when half of Congress is taking personal leave, and everyone is too concerned with the holidays to notice. Y'know... like what they did with the Domestic Security Enhancement Act (oft known as the Patriot Act 2).

But then!

Your belittling of people who've said things similar to me to trivialize my concerns has suddenly changed my mind! Oh yes, these theoretical boogeymen aren't out putting out things like SOPA or the Video Game Violence Law. Maybe every single one of them is actually just lovably ignorant to how much power they'd get from these poorly worded laws. Welp, nothing to worry about, then; now I suddenly can't understand why we opposed them in the first place. These guys were obviously just in it for our best interest and I'm obviously an easily-frightened puppy for thinking elsewise.

"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active."
-John Philpot Curran