SOPA hearing yesterday: There are not enough /facepalms in the world
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That's exactly what I'd imagine happening. Either that or something like Linkin Park's video for "Shadow of the Day" where Chester is walking through the streets of NY during a violent riot. Here [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1PCW0C1aiM&ob=av2n]Frostbite3789 said:
Well hopefully there's a single young tech savvy congressman in there somewhere just to say "you fucking old twats, learn to use the internet properly! You probably still use windows 98! get your facts straight don't spurt shit out of your mouth"
His name is Senator Ron Wyden. He's going to read a list of names straight off the internet to filibuster the bill.Rule Britannia said:
Edit: Go to stopcensorship.org to sign the petition and see a video of him basically saying everything we've been saying about the bills XD
Two things that need to be done soon. First a time machine, secondly a way to prolong human life(in case person sent back in time misses intended period)
I'm becoming more and more of the opinion that your average politician couldn't make a sandwich without a flow-chart and an action team and has to be kept away from sharp objects so that they don't accidentally stab themselves or others.
The saddest part of this is nothing will ever change until, for lack of a better word, the baby boomers die off and the 21st century generation takes its place in Congress.
Actually, America in general REALLY hates smart people. This is how those old dudes got into power. This is also why McCain/Palin was considered a viable ticket, Why Bush got elected (Among other things, Gore was deemed too intellectual), why Bachmann was considered viable for even a milisecond, etc.Zachary Amaranth said:
Intelligence is bad. We carry our high school mentality of "NEEEEEEEEEEEEERDS!" Into the voting booth and shit on people whose IQ is higher than their shoe size.
Even Kerry was "too intellectual," and he wasn't even particularly BRIGHT! Our criteria for "too smart" is "can find Canadia on the map. And misspells it as 'Canada.'"[/quote]I don't really think its a hate for intellect, but rather the American people being so ignorant that the race becomes less about how good a person actually would be at being president and more about how well they can talk. See: How Obama got elected.
Slight problem with that: Not only does it ignore most of the examples I gave, but it ignores the context of Obama's election. For the initial portion of Obama's post-nomination run, he was in a tight race with McCain and was starting to slip before the proverbial shit hit the fan. When the economy got fucked up, McCain (and by extension, the Bush Administration and their policies) got a big "fuck you." Obama was elected, in no small part, due to the "fuck Bush" sentiment especially in the wake of actual economic outcomes of Bush-era policies.McNinja said:
They tried to push Obama as one of those intellectual elitists, and it was FREAKING WORKING.
Unfortunately, we have the collective attention span of goldfish, and a good chunk of the public has decided that the solution to the economy not being magically repaired is to both vote for the people who were stonewalling progress and vote for the people who championed the policies that fucked us in the first place. So the "fuck you" vote swings both ways. Buuuuut I digress.
We are, broadly speaking, both reactionary and anti-intellect.
if a bill like this is going to pass most companies/sites would jump ship (as far as I know the google servers are hosted in northern europes.)Navvan said:
this is not sensible, and everyone who even considers this bill, should play in an active volcano. Land of the Free my right bumcheek.
Why does everyone get all upset over the BEST FRIGGING THING EVER? Wikipedia will be banned( or at least loads of it), and google will probably be partially banned too.. Music, 4chan, movies, silly gaming videos, everything will be gone. How long will it take before people start to die because we will not agree with this retardism? We'll have a revolution!
After years these bastards will die out, and it will be reverted anyway! what's the bloody point of trying!
Why does everyone get all upset over the BEST FRIGGING THING EVER? Wikipedia will be banned( or at least loads of it), and google will probably be partially banned too.. Music, 4chan, movies, silly gaming videos, everything will be gone. How long will it take before people start to die because we will not agree with this retardism? We'll have a revolution!
After years these bastards will die out, and it will be reverted anyway! what's the bloody point of trying!
No luck their either mate, the internet will be just as fucked and they're shutting down the hash bars soon.pyrosaw said:
It horrifies me that not only is this bill being considered but that I'm being fucked by politicians from another fucking country. This isn't my goverement, I didn't vote for any of these peoples, but me and many people who use the internet everyday outside the US are going be effected by this if it passes, one way or another.
