More Senators Dropping Off As Co-Sponsors Of PIPA
from the welcome-to-the-club-of-internet-protectors dept
We’ve already noted that Senator Marco Rubio dropped his co-sponsorship of PIPA, and now John Boozman has done the same, as have <a href=http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/204895-hatch-latest-to-reverse-support-of-piracy-bill” target=”_blank”>Senators Orrin Hatch and Roy Blunt. On the House side, Rep. Ben Quayle has also dropped support. On top of that, plenty of non-sponsors in both the House and the Senate have spoken out today to say they don’t support the bills either… Would list them all, but running between meetings in the Senate to see if we might be able to get a few more names on this list… more later.
UPDATE: Just learned that Pennsylvania Congressman Tim Holden is withdrawing his co-sponsorship of SOPA.
UPDATE: And now Senator James Inhofe (thanks johnjac).
Filed Under: ben quayle, blackouts, john boozman, lee terry, marco rubio, pipa, protect ip, protests, senate, sopa
Comments on “More Senators Dropping Off As Co-Sponsors Of PIPA”
Keep going!
Keep up the good work Mike!
Mike… You!… are Batman! Go!
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That’s not nice, Mike Loves his parents!
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So does Batman.
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They’re just dead, is all.
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And DC COMICS KILLED THEM OVER AND OVER! HAVE THEY NO SHAME?
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Don’t you mean “A man DRESSED like a bat”?
Mondays XKCD:
http://xkcd.com/1004/
Hopefully someday soon we’ll be able to say the following after SOPA’s demise:
The Internet wins! FATALITY!
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INFRINGEMENT!!
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Who has the copyright on the word “infringement”? If no one does then I totally want to get it so that I can then sue any industry or politician idiots whom invoke it.
Orin Hatch is a big one.
This is a man who once suggested the entertainment industry get a special exemption for breaking into people’s computer, and perhaps if a few people got their computer destroyed, maybe they’d learn top respect copyright more.
when even he start backpedaling from a copyright bill, you know it has problems.
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IP extremists really don’t respect property laws.
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Of course they don’t. The copyright and patent monopolies are limitations in property rights to begin with.
If you pay for a DVD, it becomes yours under principles of property rights. Copyright and patent monopolies make sure that the manufacturer can limit those property rights of yours.
So it’s completely logical that monopoly maximalists disregard property rights.
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People are all for smaller government, except when they aren’t, ’cause they, y’know, dislike stuff.
Sound familiar? 🙂
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Or that the coward has realized that 99% of the population is against him.
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Let’s see how sincere Hatch is when the cloture vote comes up next week.
That’s hardly any at all.
Um, yay I guess
I’m imagining everyone in Congress shaking each others’ hands, saying, “Victory! Now we have twice as many funders to choose from! Who wants to be funded by Tech now? Rubio? Boozman? Hatch? And whoever wants to stick with Hollywood can get twice as much now! Twice as much money for Congress! Let’s have a party!”
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Once again I am feeling the need for “Sad, but True” button.
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Agreed!
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I was thinking the same thing. Then I realized big tech does not need to fund the politicians. Just fund a site that pulls all information on politicians together.
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Or Google cauld “accidentally” have a breach of all the incriminating photos of the Congresscritters and Senators with their “free”hookers, yachts and suspicious brown envelopes.
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Or if google doesn’t wanna, maybe Anonymous could circulate some really filthy pictures and text about those critters.
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Now, if they were just as worried about the people marking their X on a ballot (or it’s voting machine equivalent) as the are overjoyed by the prospect of more and better funding.
My “progressive” Senator isn’t coming around http://twitter.com/NesisNotes_WPRI/status/159676180386160641
Ah Nina, you are so negative.
Not wrong, but negative.
“We the people,” beyotches!
Roy Blunt too.
http://torrentfreak.com/senator-roy-blunt-drops-pipa-co-sponsorship-120118/
https://www.facebook.com/SenatorBlunt/posts/290177127706912
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oopsie.
nevermind that. he was listed in the article already =)
Maybe some sleep is in order.
Add Jim Inhofe to the list
http://www.inhofe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=f2998e23-fbaa-5dfd-c98a-9a71c579b2b0
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Darn that Jim Inhofe and doing things that make me hate him less. But this hardly counters his support for both the Partiot Act and the NDAA.
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agreed
Sen. Cantwell (D,WA) does not support PIPA
Called the offices of my congress memebers. For what it’s worth, after explaining the reason for my call, Cantwell’s staffer told me specifically that Senator Cantwell does not support PIPA.
Left message for Sen. Murray (D,WA) (lines were busy!), and spoke with staffer for Rep. Inslee (D,WA-1).
I let all three know that I would not vote for them should they support these bills in any form, and I would actively urge others to do the same.
but will they back peddle once the bill is reintroduced at a later date, under a new name? will they think that this protest is a ‘one off’? will they be right? i sincerely hope not!
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Nah, too much money in not doing. Let’s hope Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s efforts in trolling the electoral process (legally) succeed.
Iowa Congressman Bruce Braley also
Posting this on mobile, hope it works
m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D5Cb7xzHB5is%26list%3DUUTpZ7wWCoIpNGqAZiiQDWhg%26index%3D1%26feature%3Dplcp&index=1&list=UUTpZ7wWCoIpNGqAZiiQDWhg&feature=plcp&v=5Cb7xzHB5is&gl=US
Re: Iowa Congressman Bruce Braley also
Can’t edit posts?
Anyway sorry, here’s a better link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cb7xzHB5is
I’ll bet google threatened to go offline for a day and it sunk SOPA faster than a rock off the Italian coast. Turns out that when the media that 2/3 of the world population looks at every day tries to get a message across, people take notice. If Hollywood is so upset they could just go on strike too, but they know it would just drive people to watch more user generated content on YouTube. Low cost+high creativity is the future of media, you can’t just throw money and slack jawed superstars at a rehashed script and expect people to think it’s good value anymore.
So take that! you backwards and bloated entertainment industry. While you were sleeping with your outmoded distribution models and corporate salaries that would make an enron executive blush, the world left you behind and sided with companies that create value by distributing information for free, that’s right, FREE. That little word that also happens to be the basis of another word FREEDOM, something we seem to have forgotten about in this country.
add Coburn, Grassley, Cornyn, Sessions, Lee
http://hatch.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/6655775a-85bc-431a-af6c-8b9a1e6df176/Letter%20to%20Majority%20Leader%20Reid%20January%2013%202012.pdf
Rats, rats and more rats. The ship is sinking and the rats want off. Better than drowning at least.
Orin Hatch is no longer a supporter?
Wow…just wow. Never though the day would come where HE would oppose any copyright legislation.