CNN covers SOPA on homepage

[Joakal]

So much effort on tackling SOPA. Three months later, there's a bill titled Stop Online Child Pornography. Then there's a lot of PR issues.

The companies should be demanding Internet Freedom bills to replace SOPA, DMCA, PROTECT-IP, COICA, CEST, OPENA, ACTA and more.

Take the fight back against the anti-Internet companies in the war against the Internet.

[rabidsnail]

New laws take precedence over old laws. A hypothetical "Stop Online Child Pornography" act could trivially undo any internet freedom law.

[maeon3]

We need a government censorship engine for child pornography, and if you disagree, then obviously you are pro-child pornagraphy and can be ignored from public debate... Brilliant strategy. These guys are playing Chess. We need to be equally cunning.

[demandred]

"At stake, say supporters, are American jobs. Every free piece of content scraped to be sold, or given away, online takes money out of the pockets of record companies, movie producers and other content creators and their millions of employees. Pharmaceutical companies, sports leagues and video-game makers have also voiced support. "Especially in this time of economic recovery, we cannot stand by and watch while American companies and the jobs they support are being bled by foreign criminals who are taking advantage of a massive loophole in our law enforcement capabilities," wrote Steve Tepp, who works on counterfeiting and piracy issues for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "These illicit enterprises are not tolerated in the brick and mortar marketplace, so why would we allow them to flourish unchecked online?""

Rhetoric of SOPA supporters > Rhetoric of SOPA detractors, when it comes to winning public support. The message needs to be streamlined...

[k33n]

CNN, owned by Turner Broadcasting, owned by Time Warner, which supports SOPA.

[nopal]

It's not mentioned in the article, but CNN has a dog in this fight with their iReport service. They receive and post a lot of user-generated content nowadays.

[smhinsey]

This is true to some extent or another for almost all of the major news sites. Even if they just have comments, they're aren't offering them out of the goodness of their hearts, it's because it's a cheap way to boost impressions, sometimes dramatically. (At least, this is why they existed when I worked for one of them.)

[nextparadigms]

That probably explains it. I was wondering why all of the sudden a mainstream media company would start talking about it, as it's generally in all the MSM's benefit to let SOPA pass and kill all their Internet competitors, and even use it as a tool for political censorship under the disguise of "copyright infringement".

[jscore]

They are also a big company that donates to the government so I doubt they're expecting serious ramifications from this bill's passage to their bottom line.

[nab]

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/9CfwQ.png

[phear]

I am opposed to SOPA in the strongest sense possible coming from a nation where majority of internet users cannot afford content(music, software) at market prices let alone afford a good internet connection.

Was watching the president of the Motion Picture Association of America talk on Bloomberg West about their reasons for supporting SOPA and why SOPA is important and that guy(and those like him) is good at what he does. Those opposed to SOPA for now have confined the fight to blogs and videos on Youtube but we need to take the fight where it matters, to Washington and sway those who should be swayed to stop this thing.

Not an American citizen but american tech companies opposed to this should be talking to their lobbyists and not just posting statements on their sites

[quizbiz]

Related discussion on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/o6ymp/reddit_user...

[amichail]

If SOPA would increase your business income by 10 times, would you accept it then?

[kingkilr]

No, you're still talking about fundamentally broken mechanisms and rules. If SOPA would decrease your business income by 10 times, would you accept it then? I can make up numbers too.

[JoshTriplett]

If SOPA would increase my business's income, I'd be in the wrong business, and I wouldn't be me.

[geuis]

Except that it won't. An almost insignificantly small industry has an outrageous amount of influence compared to the industries that actually make real money and jobs in the US.