On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Mike Godwin <mnemonic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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Dan, you're misreading the implications of what the story you link to
says. What's actually happening is that the House sponsors hope to
defuse opposition by delaying and slightly modifying SOPA. My
experience as a DC lawyer for much of my career strongly suggests that
there's no reason to suspend expressions of opposition to SOPA or PIPA
or the general effort by content companies to change the internet as
we know it. In my view, it is wholly incorrect to say "that time is
not right now." Anything that the legislators can interpret as a lack
of resolve from the internet communities will encourage them to
resubmit SOPA or its equivalent in another form. The time for
protesting this is, in fact, right now.
What would we be protesting, now? That the process worked, this time?
SOPA is currently dead. It may come back, soon, as something else,
but SOPA is dead.
We need to be watchful and ready to blackout the site, but we should
not protest about dead bills.
There is no consensus to blackout the site over a different bill.
--
John Vandenberg