UPDATE: Petition Demands White House Investigate SOPA Supporter

[Parnage]

*snort* ahahah yeah sure the Justice Department will get right on it! Because Eric Holder has been nothing but on the ball with anything that involves corruption in the government.

 

[DanDeFool]

After sites like Google, Wikipedia, and Reddit engaged in a Web-wide blackout last week, Dodd accused them of abusing their power and using their power to "intentionally skew the facts to incite their users in order to further their corporate interests."

Okay, seriously? There's the pot calling the kettle black, and then there's the pitch-dark vacuum of space calling a fucking supernova black.

Corporations skew the facts to further their interests all the goddamn time. Maybe the reason why it worked so well when Google, Reddit, and Wikipedia (which is practically a non-profit, for God's sake) tried it is because THEIR INTERESTS ACTUALLY OVERLAP WITH OUR INTERESTS.

Listen Dodd, just because you enjoy letting the RIAA and MPAA jerk off in your face doesn't mean that sticking their dicks in our faces is doing the right thing. In other words, I think we'd really rather not have a bunch of faceless corporations telling us what to do with OUR Internet.

And it is OUR Internet, because unless I am hugely mistaken, the end users bear the brunt of the costs for keeping the Internet going with our subscription fees. So, at the end of the day, why should the MPAA and RIAA have de-facto control over a vast infrastructure that they did not create and, for the most part, do not support?

Short answer, they shouldn't.

Google, Reddit, and Wikipedia, on the other hand, provide high-quality (even essential) services to the billions of end-users who pay for the Internet;s upkeep on a daily basis. I think we ought to give their opinions, skewed or no, a little bit more weight when deciding the Internet's future, and we ought to tell ex-Senator Dodd to go stick a gavel far enough up his ass for him to taste the legislative bullshit he's been shoveling.

 

[hooksashands]

Awwwww, did the poor widdle corporate-owned puppet not get to buy out our justice system? Breaks my heart.

 

[Electrogecko]

Great, now if we can just sign a similar petition for every other congressman.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

Great, now if we can just sign a similar petition for every other congressman.

Seeing that reminded me of Postal 2: Petition to make whiney congressmen play violent video games.

"Just sign the stupid petition. I got sh** to do."

OT: And a victory is finally scored for creative freedom. Now hopefully the US government/DoJ actually investigate this and stop the corruption of the entire House/Senate by the corporations. And then Satan will drive a snow-plough to work.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

This is why I suggested a while back a taxpayer funded amount for political running, including an outright ban on all outside funding. People complain that they shouldn't see their tax money spent on rallies, but, firstly, the whole point of taxation is it's for all, not just you, and secondly, isn't a better form of democracy worth a few bucks a month?

Also, they'd all have to work a lot harder if they had limited funds, not just throw millions at billboards and tv ads.

If big business COULDN'T fund politics, politics would have no reason to choose them over the people voting for them. Sure there'd still be corruption, but less.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

"Accusing Google and Wikipedia of abusing their power."

This is why we can't and shouldn't allow Republicunts to be involved in politics. They brainwash themselves with their own lies.

Not saying Google AREN'T abusing their monopoly in OTHER industries.

 

[Strazdas]

the petition responses are bvery generic and mostly copy-paste though, so dont expect much.