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Watch the video.
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
H/Y to Ann Fontaine fore the video.
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ReplyDeleteWhere is J.Edgar when we need him...it would never come to this if we had the good old guys and the good old daze running the show like they knew what was good for them/us. Where did we go wrong/right?
ReplyDeleteVivian Tropinski-Gomez, Visionist
I went to the demonstration this afternoon in front of the offices of NY Senators Schumer and Gillibrand. There was a block-long people-pen in one lane of Third Avenue, quite full, and half the sidewalk next to the building was jammed with people. No idea how many people that was. The police were unobtrusive and polite, insisting only that a lane be kept open for pedestrians between the enclosure and the sidewalk crowd. Many good speeches were given. No word from our senators yet. Gillibrand has been fine on progressive issues, including marriage equality, so we're very disappointed in her. But she voted for NDAA, with its provisions for indefinite detentions without warrant or trial, so someone is getting to her. Hollywood is said to have given her a million dollars. We've met her several times at meetings in Queens; she may not be so welcome in future. Schumer is already known as the senator from Verizon and Israel, so we take what we can get from him. He brings NY business.
ReplyDeleteThanks, doug.
ReplyDeleteLen, we went wrong in a lotta ways, right?
Murdoch, good for you for being there.
A bit of a surprise response from my Rep. Jeff Landry (R):
While this legislation has noble aims, I am concerned that it does not provide adequate protections for users of the internet and could represent an unsupportable expansion of the Federal Government’s power. As such, I am wary of this legislation and am currently investigating it further.
My "representatives" - i.e., those representing the people who own me as worker-unit number so-and-so - threw the usual words-words-words at me, explaining, oh-so-carefully, what the legislation proposes.
ReplyDeleteI wrote back, "Thank you, sir, but, as I noted, I am fully-acquainted with the legislation and don't need further explanation. What it proposes is noble, but our current government simply cannot be trusted with this power, as it has proven so dangerously unwise. It is simply another way of restricting the free-flow of knowledge in the guise of protecting those it would keep ignorant. It's taken time, but we are, sir, wising up."
Mark, I hate when the reps do that, as though you don't know WTF you're writing about.
ReplyDeleteThe 'expansion of government' aspect of the bills may yet cause the new effort to fail. I hope so.
Lovely letter, Mark.
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