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Young People Followed SOPA News More Than Election News
from the more-likely-to-impact-them dept
For people who still don't recognize that there's a generational shift going on when it comes to how people view attempts to regulate the internet, communications and copyright law, they might want to start paying attention. According to the folks over at the Pew Research Center, the story of SOPA was the most followed story for people under 30 -- even more than news about the Presidential election. That's probably because SOPA/PIPA had much more of a likelihood of impacting their daily lives. Either way, it's amazing to see politicians and SOPA/PIPA supporters still think that this was just a "vocal minority" complaining about the bill. Their ridiculously bad miscalculation in introducing ridiculously bad bills has now awakened a very large percentage of young people to these issues, in a way that won't just go away. Amazingly, it wasn't just people aged 20 to 30 who took an interest. The research showed that there was interest all the way down to the K-12 set as well.
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The Internet has become
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Count me in the 30-40 group...
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Those of us over 60 weren't asleep, either.
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I'm not so sure that dependence on the internet is greater or less for any age group. The internet has pervaded most walks of life and age groups.
I think the larger problem is that for 30+ age groups, network news is still the predominate way they receive pertinent information. Old habits die hard.
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Nothing? Then cut the prejudice. Something? Then stop being a hypocrite.
Generalizations: they make your arguments weak.
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I've searched and searched, but cannot hear or find music anywhere, ever. And that's because all them damn yungins done stole every last drop of it.
(**get off my lawn you hooligans!!**)
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Also probably because
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Who cares about the election?
For instance, take President Obama. He said he would close Gitmo, now he's authorizing secret assassination programs aimed at United States citizens. If anything, Obama has been *worse* because now we have progressives who previously would scream bloody murder when Bush so much as eavesdropped on our phone calls, while they cheer on Obama's ability to end the life of American citizens without charges, trials, or convictions, all under secret law that the administration refuses to disclose.
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Combating SOPA/PIPA was never about having the rights to steal music. It always was to ensure that never the old generations can take control over Internet. Especially politicians which are all craps.
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Re: Those of us over 60 weren't asleep, either.
Roy Blunt was a co-sponsor and withdrew his support, but that was long after he sent me an auto-reply filled with the exact B.S. statistics that were debunked here (and by the Government Accounting Office) long ago.
And the presidential election is still ten months away. I'm not paying attention to it either. They're all a bunch of boneheads.
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You spelled copyright infringement wrong.
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Isn't that how the Soviet Union did it?
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You Have It All Wrong
Sincerely,
Hollywood
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SOPA/PIPA will die, mark my Small Business owner, Taxpaying VOTER words.
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They do indeed. Now however, we older folks watch the news to yell at it for being just speculation or opinion, or spun hard left or right, then check the coffee table laptop for the real story. (Or we grouse about how stuff we knew about for weeks: the Wisconsin union debacle, Occupy and SOPA, even the Wiki blackout, were all apparently NOT news until they became so big they couldn't be ignored - like NBC not reporting the Wiki blackout at all until they realized they looked complicit.)
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Re: Who cares about the election?
QUESTION AUTHORITY!!
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Sarcam
That's because all the young people were hoping the bill will pass, but the noisy minority wouldn't let it pass and everyone who didn't speak up wanted it to pass.
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That's right, because elections don't determine what policies get pushed.
AAargh, bloody young people.
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The young ones are worried about someone taking their binky away. They aren't concerned which older man gets elected to office.
Now, of course, you might want to reconsider that when we get closer to an actual election rather than some nearly meaningless primary bs.
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Vote this one funny instead. :)
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Spoiler Alert: Obama is 99% likely to win.
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When I scoffed at them and asked if they even knew what they were about, they recited flawlessly the text of all those bills from start to finish, word for word, and then showed me a very thorough analysis of how said bills would affect every single people in the planet. And I mean every single one, like, with first and last name and social security number/ID where it applied, home address, etc.
True story.
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Thanks in part to you, techdirt.
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"vocal minority"
They may be vocal, but talk is cheap, they will not get off their ass and enroll to vote, as such politicans take little to no notice of them.
Compared to retirees, who vote is very large number, who care about actual politics and primarily healthcare, they vote is huge numbers, and pollies fall all over themselves to appeas them.
If you believe SOPA will cause a major shift in voting demographs in the US you might want to think again !!!.
ain't gonna happen...
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I'm actually more ashamed that we have a teacher here who is criticizing his students for what they don't know and complaining that he doesn't have the time to teach them. Granted, there are many situations in life where I would rather give teachers the benefit of the doubt as they are often overworked as it is; however, I feel that this AC did NOT explain himself adequately if this is one of those. I EXPECT kids to only be somewhat informed. What can you really expect from children in a society where the NORM is to just be spoonfed information. It takes them quite a while to free themselves of that mindset. That's not something to be critical about (unless the particular student is motivated by that attitude I guess), but something that should a teacher should be trying to counter by teaching them to question their sources. Teaching is not an easy job and I don't envy you your responsibility, but I do feel a little let down by your comments above.
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What someone purportedly more knowledgeable may have to say is interesting and possible helpful, but it does nothing to teach a student how to think and formulate their own opinions, which is easily the most important skill necessary to succeed in life.
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I absolutely agree that critical thinking is the single most important skill that one can develop (with publc speaking and good writing skills not far behind). Unfortunately, whether in K-12 or post-secondary education far too many view education as the ability to regurgitate what they have heard. I have seen this far too many times in work environments. They tend to comprise the 90% whose continued employment depends upon the 10% who have mastered critical thinking and are able to think outside the box.
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Young people follow SOPA
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( ) This is your brain
() This is your brain on music
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-- random Hollywood exec.
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I doubt you've talked to anyone about ACTA in real life. Actually, I doubt your very existence. I'm convinced you are a cleverly built chatbot that does nothing but tell inane stories sprinkled with MPAA and RIAA talking points.
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