On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:14:37 +0000, Invisible wrote:

>>> If they were planning to make it legal to lock Americans up without
>>> trial, *that* would be seriously disturbing.
>>
>> They already have that.
> 
> OK. In that case, if I had the misfortune to live in America, I'd be
> *way* more worried about that...

Indeed, there has been some noise about that addition to the 
appropriations bill.

>>> Censoring the Internet is merely worrying
>>
>> Maybe for you.  We have this thing here in the US called "free speech"
> 
> More like "had", by the looks of things...

What do you base that statement on?  SOPA and PIPA are not actually laws 
that are being enforced - they are just bills that are currently dead.

>> The point of the protest yesterday was to raise awareness and get these
>> bills shelved.
>>
>> And it was successful.
> 
> I'm not so sure about that... While I grant that many more people have
> now heard about this (e.g., me), I'm not hearing anything about that
> stopping this stuff actually becoming law. And even if these bills never
> become law, surely the lobbyists will just keep bills like this coming
> year after year until one of them /does/ make it into law...

The BBC had a story about it on their website.

And sure, RIAA and MPAA are not done yet.  They're currently engaged in a 
smear campaign against companies like Google who pushed on this.

Jim

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