CoL0sS said:
Exile714 said:
I wish I could properly explain how the US Congress works to The Escapist community. How many of you actually know what markup is? I can tell you that markup is NOT where proponents of this bill want it to go. I can tell you that its chances of revival in this congressional term are slim and that this is a huge setback.
But you won't believe me.
Because the internet is for OMG!, not intelligent conversation.
As someone who works in legislative law, SOPA and PIPA (by proxy) are dead. Of course, anything can rear its head again, but for now it is over. Good job. You people made my work SOOOOOOOOO much easier.
Thanks.
Thank God there are always patient know-it-all's such as yourself that can explain this
unfathomable word to us poor, unwashed, slow-in-the-head peasants.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention, and remember less condescension and a bit more respect will get you a lot more of those "intelligent conversations" you crave so much.
In CoLoS' defence, he kinda has a point. We're all wailing and baying and crying about SOPA coming back and yet very few people seem to be armed with actual facts. Most of what I am seeing here is a lot of hysteria that is feeding on more hysteria. Responding to his comment with such disdainful sarcasm just makes you look arrogant. Maybe if the majority were not all screaming for a Waaahhhmbulance then he wouldn't have to type in such a manner!
Don't get me wrong, I think SOPA as it stands is a pile of arse and hope it dies but what we need now is level-headedness and INFORMATION. Anyone looking at this thread could very easily miss the reasonable and informed comments because they are distracted by the person screaming and wailing just because the person next to him is and so on.
I'm all for the prevention of piracy but SOPA and PIPA are not just badly-worded, I would go so far as to say that it was deliberate. Not unreasonably, America may want to protect what belongs to it but their usual way of doing so usually involves smashing someone else with the hammer of misguided-righteousness when what they should be doing is putting their own house in order first. This wont happen though because to do so would be to accept that America is in some way wrong or, even worse, inferior, which to your average American is simply unthinkable and is tantamount to treason.
As much as it likes to think so, America has absolutely no right to tell other countries what to do and how to conduct their business. Sure that never stops them but the more opposition to the bill that comes from both home and abroad then the more they have to take note.
However, all that will be for nothing if we don't keep a level head! Throwing toys out the pram, threatening, crying and panicking will just play into the advocate's hands. We need to show we are serious and the way to do that is by showing that we wont be cowed by those on the corporate payroll and blindly accept what they tell us. We need to prove we can think for ourselves and that we have the intelligence and the nous to force the bill into submission but
it has to be done properly!
For the record, I am not claiming for one second that I have either the intelligence and the nous that I was referring to but I do know that many people do and we need to get / keep them onside.
Should all this happen but the bill be passed anyway, however unlikely it may seem at this moment, THEN is the time to get pissed-off and get the pitchforks out!
Wardy
