Nothing else ever has

I'm glad to see that my 2012 resolution to post grudgingly and infrequently until SOPA/PIPA are defeated is finally inspiring other people sit up and take notice of this threat to the continued existence of the Internet.  If you want to do your small part to help free us all from the grasp of pure evil, head on over to EFF and click it up.

LESSER EVIL: A little something for your Democratic friends:

Members of the Senate are rushing for the exits in the wake of the Internet's unprecedented protest of the Protect IP Act (PIPA). At least 13 members of the upper chamber announced their opposition on Wednesday. [...] The newly-opposed Senators are skewed strongly to the Republican side of the aisle. An Ars Technica survey of Senators' positions on PIPA turned up only two Democrats, Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR), who announced their opposition on Wednesday. The other 11 Senators who announced their opposition on Wednesday were all Republicans.

(This was an early count—later in the day the tally stood at 2 Democrats and 16 Republicans.)

Comments

[gfod]

Lovely, Boxer and Feinstein are co-sponsors of the senate bill. My congressman, Garamendi [D,CA-10], is still "undecided".

Calls made. Emails sent. Thanks for the reminder!

[Rosemary Molloy]

At least once in a while, the people can be heard. Wish we could generate that kind of protest about the war machine.

[Z]

Progressive hero al franken ... he's almost as funny as bill mahr! ... took in the 2nd most money from dodd and co. (1st - progressive stalwart barbara boxer) and he still backs the bill despite progressive backlash about it. But I'm sure that come election time, progressives will "remember" that he was forced to by the dastardly republicans.

Note that the only reason that the bill has a chance to be killed is that silicon valley has thrown their money against it and the republicans look at it as an opportunity to have the democrats own the very unpopular bill and scarf up some si valley cash in the process. People that believe that all the citizens' letters and emails to their "representatives" have any affect on these whores are deluding themselves I'm sorry to say.

Z