They don't think that.

(Well, I'm sure a lot of them actually do, but that's not what the protest about SOPA/PIPA is about).

The reason that people are protesting against SOPA is twofold:

1) SOPA/PIPA proposes exceptionally far-reaching, non-democratically applied powers of control over the entire global internet, on the say-so of powerful American corporations

2) The measures that SOPA/PIPA proposes will do absolutely NOTHING to stop internet piracy of music, films, tv, books or software. Nothing. Not a dent. Not a scratch on the surface.

What the SOPA/PIPA powers will do, and this is what you are not being told by a fairly tech-ignorant mainstream media, is simply give draconian powers of control over the internet to American corporations. Not voters or politicians, but corporations. And it's just the first step of the control that they want, the thin-end of the wedge. The gateway to the total control that they ultimately want.

But they've been quite clever in going about it by presenting it as a front against copyright theft, which is difficult to morally justify. "If this combats copyright theft it can't be a bad thing." Sure, but if it doesn't, and believe me, it doesn't, what then?

You demonstrate yourself that they've been entirely successful in their subterfuge, by trotting out exactly the message that you're supposed to have swallowed.

SOPA/PIPA lecture ends. I hope you've been taking notes, this will feature in your end-of-term exam.

Posted By: Arizona Bay on January 20th 2012 at 13:32:44

Message Thread

These Anonymous c**ts - why do they think it's perfectly all right to steal other peoples (General Chat) - CB41, Jan 20, 13:15:27
- Highlighting security issues (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Jan 20, 13:44:28
- They don't think that. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jan 20, 13:32:44
  - I thought their actions were in response to the closure of a baltantly (General Chat) - CB41, Jan 20, 13:36:56
    - Baltently (n/m) (General Chat) - Charles21, Jan 20, 13:47:28
    - Blatantly illegal ? It was just a file sharing site for large files. We used to use it to (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Jan 20, 13:47:22
      - SOPA/PIPA aside, it seems like they were up to no good (General Chat) - Hertz van Rental, Jan 20, 13:52:40
    - No, well, it's understandable that you think that, given the paucity of good tech reportin (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jan 20, 13:44:50
      - MSM? (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Jan 20, 13:48:37
        
        Sokay, got it (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Jan 20, 13:49:17
    - "illegal" is probably not the right word, I accept (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Jan 20, 13:41:10
- should it be obvious what you're talking about? (n/m) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Jan 20, 13:20:33
  - Given todays news, yes. (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Jan 20, 13:21:51
- I don't know, I'll ask them. Oh. (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Jan 20, 13:16:41
  - Hack their website and ask (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Jan 20, 13:18:38
    - I wouldn't know where to start. What do you do? (General Chat) - jafski, Jan 20, 13:20:58
      - Presumably you start by aquiring one of these (General Chat) - CB41, Jan 20, 13:23:07

Reply to Message

In order to add a post to the WotB Message Board you must be a registered WotB user.

If you are not yet registered then please visit the registration page. You should ensure that their browser is setup to accept cookies.