[ale] Looking like SOPA is dead and burried, but PIPA is still in play...

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 14:30 -0500, Aaron Ruscetta wrote: 
> It looks like SOPA (personally dubbed the Spit On Privacy Act) is dead:
> <https://www.examiner.com/computers-in-denver/house-kills-sopa>

Funny...  You say "dead and buried" in the subject but not in the body.
I disagree with the "dead and buried" subject but I agree with "dead" as
in "dead in the water" (for now).  I also agree with the rest of what
you have to say below.  These vermin will not be "dead and buried" until
they are buried with a wooden stake through their heart and an iron
cross for a headstone under a bed of garlic.  SOPA was withdrawn until
they can come to a consensus.  That does not give me a warm and fuzzy at
all.

> We need to stay vigilant, though, to be sure it stays dead, and also
> focus protest against PIPA (personally dubbed the Pervert IP Act).
> 
> I'm in favor of a full blackout of ALE on the 18th.
> 
> Unfortunately, even when we've blown the heads off of these two
> heinous monsters, there is no doubt that more brain eating, culture
> killing, freedom hating legislative zombies will be endlessly spawned
> by the corporapist media conglomerates. It will take a concerted,
> constant, and global vigil for freedom and free speech and democracy
> and meritocracy on the internet to survive the perpetual threats from
> totalitarian regimes, industrial capitalism and the corporate welfare state.
> 
> peace
> aaron

Regards,
Mike
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