Post SOPA rage here

[Zanderinfal]

Now I know what you are thinking, "oh, this will be about how SOPA is really bad".

Nope. Just post ALL of you're rage here. Let it all out. This could end up helping our cause, infact. If the community continues to show discontent with this, we still have a chance. So please do us a favor and let it all run wild.

 

[Ranorak]

Sons of video games! Of internet! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the freedom of internet fails, when we forsake our rights and break all lines of communication, but it is not this day. An hour of greed and shattered dreams when the freedom of internet comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this world wide web, I bid you stand, Men of the West!

 

[omega 616]

My problem with SOPA? Wiki is offline today!

Yeah, so far I haven't been effected (that much) and I know my teeny tiny voice on the entire internet will be drowned out.

Plus there are millions of people already campaigning against it, including huge companies who are the ones who have the real weight to squash this.

So me getting my panties in a bunch wont help.

 

[shado_temple]

Something I noticed today that I hadn't before was the number of unions/guilds on the official list of SOPA supporters. I mean, I get that SAG, ASCAP, and AAP are supporting it (since it would directly benefit them), but groups like the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers? What would they get out of this?

 

[Aeshi]

I think all these 'STOP TEH SOAPA OMG" messages are more annoying than SOPA itself tbh

 

[Ranorak]

My problem with SOPA? Wiki is offline today!

Yeah, so far I haven't been effected (that much) and I know my teeny tiny voice on the entire internet will be drowned out.

Plus there are millions of people already campaigning against it, including huge companies who are the ones who have the real weight to squash this.

So me getting my panties in a bunch wont help.

Disabling java wil enable the Wiki to work again, it's in their FAQ

 

[Plurralbles]

My problem with SOPA? Wiki is offline today!

Yeah, so far I haven't been effected (that much) and I know my teeny tiny voice on the entire internet will be drowned out.

Plus there are millions of people already campaigning against it, including huge companies who are the ones who have the real weight to squash this.

So me getting my panties in a bunch wont help.

if you're a citizen of the US your panties can become bunched about this as much as you want, considering you can scream at a rep's staff all day if you'd like.

 

[M4t3us]

I thought there'd be a picture liek this by now, but I couldn't find it.
I made my own:

 

[Erttheking]

SOPA, by stupid people, for stupid people.

Also FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK ************!...sorry, had to get some rage out that it's back up.

 

[999realthings]

I think all these 'STOP TEH SOAPA OMG" messages are more annoying than SOPA itself tbh

Don't worry, you probably wouldn't have deal it once SOPA pass.

 

[Tiberiu Paul Iordache]

Fuck SOPA and PIPA. They stand against what is democratic. The ESA is supporting SOPA. Do not support the ESA unless they withdraw their support of SOPA. Do not support or attend E3 or else you will be supporting SOPA.

 

[Jak23]

Sons of video games! Of internet! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the freedom of internet fails, when we forsake our rights and break all lines of communication, but it is not this day. An hour of greed and shattered dreams when the freedom of internet comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this world wide web, I bid you stand, Men of the West!

*WAR CRY!!!* Lotr is so awesome...

 

[Not-here-anymore]

It seems that every anti-SOPA message is being dismissed as the ravings of a group of filthy pirates, when a lot of the people objecting are suggesting that something really does need to be done about piracy. One of the issues is that this will not stop piracy, nor impede upon it in a meaningful way.

To give an analogy, SOPA is the digital equivalent of saying
"Hey, murder is bad! Let's make it illegal to teach people how to use guns or tell them where a gun shop is"
"They can still buy guns though, right?"
"Of course!"

 

[AngloDoom]

I think all these 'STOP TEH SOAPA OMG" messages are more annoying than SOPA itself tbh

So in terms of annoyance:

People complaining > A country being given ridiculous control over the internet?

You confuse me, sir/madam.

OT: I'm actually surprised by how invisible such an issue is. In all honesty it makes me more nervous about the US government than I feel anyone outside it should rationally feel. It especially annoys me how shit like this happens and the same government tries to pronounce everyone most freeest of the freeest!

I feel for you, my American friends.

 

[dills2]

fucking sopa affecting the whole world cos the american government is stupid

 

[Ekit]

HOW COME AMERICANS NEVER CAN ELECT SMART PEOPLE FOR OFFICE??? HOW CAN THESE FUCKING POLITICIANS BEND OVER FOR THE FUCKING ENERTAINMENT INDUSTRY?? CAN'T THEY SEE WHAT AN IMPORTANT ROLE INTERNET HAS IN OUR SOCIETY?? THE INTERNET HAS STARTED REVOLUTIONS FOR FUCK SAKE!!

FUCK SOPA! FUCK HUMANITY! FUCK EVERYTHING!

I feel much better now...

 

[Robert Ewing]

1. America, land of the free.

2. All these paranoid schizo hippies gargling about how the corporations are evil are now incredibly right... For god sake, that is just terrible...

3. America = China.

4. 80% of African countries > America.

5. SOPA gives you cancer, truefax.

6. Doesn't this mean that other countries jurisdiction over the internet is now basically void in comparison to a 2-bit American company? So shit companies like Kraft can potentially lord over more power over the internet than all other countries on the planet combined? Fucking.

7. I'm not going to buy Hollywood movies after this anyway, lol. Bollywoodftw.

8. Hollywood still jizzing over 1080p, and 3d. Bollywood has been using 4096p for years now. And 3d got shit some time during the 80's. Hollywood is so freaking terrible in every single way. The Nigerian film industry is more creative, lucrative, innovative, vibrant, dynamic, new, exciting and better quality than everything Hollywood has ever shat out.

9. America's film industry is on it's last legs, dying out incredibly fast, it's trying to claw some life back into it, but it's definitely going. The only thing the American film industry is good for in this day and age is pornography. And even the best of that is free of charge.

10. SOPA is like a defibrillator powered by scorpion venom. It will MAYBE pump some more vitality into the industry, but it will also make EVERYONE who's ever used the internet resent them to the very end.

 

[Solo-Wing]

In protest of SOPA I am getting hammered until I myself black out!

WHO WANT'S IN ON THIS ACTION!?



But seriously fuck SOPA.

 

[TheEnglishman]

Piracy is a problem. This is not the solution. And they know this, hence the wording that gives them these powers they don't want to give up. It's an insult to democracy and the general populations intelligence.

I really hope The Escapist Boycotts E3.

 

[Pebkio]

No, really, the more I look into this pile of shit-covered shit with shit filling the more I realize that it's more of the same shit-covered shit with shit filling that old assholes have been trying to do long before the internet was invented.

Censor everyone younger than them.

SOPA and PIPA are less about stopping piracy and more about censoring people who don't agree with those in power (ie. with money). They just hid it in some bullshit about copy-write law to garner the support of a bunch of companies that'll only suffer from their passing.

What really pisses me off is that most of the supporters in congress are 40-50 years old. That means they were brought up in the HIPPY GENERATION. Free love and... and expression is the best thing ever... and down with the fascist, censoring, war-mongering, man.

What the fuck happened to all of you?! Turning old made you turn into lethargic, stupid, sheep... afraid of new and scary things like the internet and video games? They're only over two decades old! I cannot begin to understand why anyone would ever vote for any of you. Sure, I'm pissed about SOPA and PIPA right now, but you've got a history of proposing and voting on equally flawed and fascist fucking bills in the past.

No really. Go. Fuck. Yourselves. If you all were running any kind of a decent thing up there in Washington, this would never have even been considered.