Discussion: Online Piracy, Net Neutrality, Killswitch, and Other Internet Issues

[Paradoxium]

Lets Boycott TDK Rises and Avengers

 

[Paradoxium]

I am contemplating boycotting Rises and Avengers. Avengers might be easier cause I don't like Joss Whedon's dialogue, but Rises will be tough. But then I've manage to avoid Spidey 3 and Revenge of the Sith all these years a well. Try to get more people to not watch Batman and troll the reviews with low scores. Encourage bad buzz for TDK Rises, to give Time Warner a big middle finger (being big lobbyists in this).

Unless Nolan voices displeasure with SOPA/PIPA, operation Bad Buzz for TDKR might be a go

 

[enterthemadness]

Lets Boycott TDK Rises and Avengers

I still haven't seen the Batman 3 trailer...sour economy means me not in mood.

 

[Schlosser85]

Oh please.

 

[SentinelMind]

Enterthemadness, you know you've watched the trailer 58 times straight. You're watching it right now, aren't you?

Nobody is going to be boycotting the two tentpole blockbusters of the summer over politics.

 

[wiegeabo]

I shall boycott the Twilight movie over these bills!

 

[Paradoxium]

I boycotted Revenge of the Sith after giving Lucas a second chance only to have turd fly in my face.

Still holding strong.

 

[Paradoxium]

DC gets more leeway than Marvel for me. Marvel was explicit in their support, DC's parent company explicitly supported SOPA/PIPA, but DC themselves has been pretty grey on this.

 

[wiegeabo]

I boycotted Revenge of the Sith after giving Lucas a second chance only to have turd fly in my face.

Still holding strong.

To be fair, Sith is arguably the best of the prequels.


....for what it worth.

 

[Paradoxium]

You guys are aware Hollywood is threatening to cut donations to Obama.

 

[wiegeabo]

I'm sure that says something when Hollywood is implicitly siding with the Republicans.

 

[Paradoxium]

To be fair, Sith is arguably the best of the prequels.


....for what it worth.

Hey I kept to my thing, I'm clearly crazy enough. Though Batman is gonna require more willpower.

Skipping Avengers is probably easier, and Marvel is more outright. Maybe it's an acquired taste, I just don't like Whedon's dialogue.

Not sure how I am gonna deal with the UFC. Especially if a GSP vs Diaz or Silva vs Sonnen happens

 

[Marvolo]

You guys are aware Hollywood is threatening to cut donations to Obama.

So Hollywood is acting like a child and holding its breath like until it gets what it wants? Lmao go ahead Hollywood. Remember who goes and sees your movies. They are big, but we are many and we will not go quietly. I wonder if Anonymous will pay them a visit if this goes through.

 

[terry78]

You notice how everything we should be against always produces something we all love?

 

[wiegeabo]

One of the guys I follow on twitter put it best.

Corporations are just wild animals that will do whatever we allow them to get away with.


And it's true. We're supposed to be the bosses of corporations. They just seem to forget that from time to time.

 

[Marvolo]

Yep and its scaring them that we haven't forgotten who's in charge. Even if this law does pass there will be consequences for them.

 

[Paradoxium]

Chris Dodd’s paid SOPA crusading
Greenwald from Salon.

Chris Dodd’s emphatic 2010 pledge not to lobby once he finally left the Senate was prompted by widespread speculation that he spent the last two years in office blatantly shilling for corporate interests in order to ensure a prosperous post-Congress career. Particularly during the 2010 financial reform debate — when it became increasingly apparent that allegations of improper benefits from Countrywide Financial would make his re-election close to impossible — Dodd served on multiple occasions as chief spokesman for, and defender of, the interests of Wall Street and corporate America. Though sleazy and grotesque, it was therefore entirely unsurprising when it was announced last March that Dodd would “be Hollywood’s leading man in Washington, taking the most prestigious job on K Street”: Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), “whose perks include a $1.2 million-a-year salary and getting to attend the Academy Awards ceremony.”

It is in that capacity that Dodd has become the leading public spokesman and private lobbyist for the truly dangerous PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, bills craved by the industry that pays him. These bills, which vest the power in large corporations and the government to seize and shutdown websites with little or no due process in the name of stopping piracy, pose the greatest dangers to Internet freedom of any bill in the last decade, at least. So serious are these threats that they have prompted a rare — and inspiring — protest movement from numerous large Internet companies and blogs in the form of an Internet “blackout” today.

It’s behavior like Chris Dodd’s that makes it rational not only to be cynical about our political culture, but outright jaded. What makes Dodd’s shilling for this censorship law so galling is that, during the 2008 presidential campaign, he postured as the candidate who would devote himself first and foremost to defending core Constitutional freedoms and civil liberties. When Dodd led the 2007 fight against warrantless surveillance and amnesty for lawbreaking telecoms as part of the FISA debate, I, along with several other blogs and MoveOn.org, helped raise close to $250,000 in a few days from small donors for his flagging presidential campaign.

One of the biggest shill for SOPA/PIPA is Dodd.

 

[Dr. Evil]

The banning of Twitter would also affect Professional Sports. The NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball all have Twitter as well as thousands of players from all three of those leagues. Also, thousands of journalists who cover sports, either locally or nationally are on Twitter as well as thousands of TV guys who cover sports.

 

[craigdbfan]

Of course Dodd was the lead proponent. He's the head of the MPAA and was a former senator.

Can this slug get any slimier?

To answer my own question, yes. A lot more.

 

[wiegeabo]

The banning of Twitter would also affect Professional Sports. The NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball all have Twitter as well as thousands of players from all three of those leagues. Also, thousands of journalists who cover sports, either locally or nationally are on Twitter as well as thousands of TV guys who cover sports.

To be fair, some of those athletes would be better off never being allowed to use twitter.


...or even talk in public.

 

[terry78]

Internet freedom is selective, that's what it comes down to.

 

[Dr. Evil]

To be fair, some of those athletes would be better off never being allowed to use twitter.


...or even talk in public.

Of course, but for sports writers, Twitter is important. They use Twitter to break news of a team's transactions.

If an NBA, NFL, or MLB team makes a significant move that improves that team, that sportswriter will use Twitter to break the news to the world.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

You guys are aware Hollywood is threatening to cut donations to Obama.

What good are those donations? If he signs SOPA he'll lose the election for sure.

 

[craigdbfan]

That's why he'll make sure it gets delayed until after the election.

 

[Dr. Evil]

I doubt these bills get passed because Twitter and Youtube are not only used by Americans, but people around the world.

Congress has got to realize that while Twitter and Youtube are American creations, both are used globally.

I think that global use will be the reason it won't pass.