In Less than 24 Hours Congress Could Vote to Change the Internet Forever

Maybe the Senate can use Go-To-Meeting to vote from HOME without missing any holiday time eh? NAW!

hahaha And miss all that QUALITY STEWARDESS TIME?!

If this goes through, we will officially be a fascist dictatorship. For me to call this asshole, would be a waste of time.
Jim Sensenbrenner, (R)Wisconsin 5th
DC Office Phone: 202- 225-5101

If Obama signs it, it's one more reason to vote him out, and one more issue issue to change when we control government.

Occupy DC! Where are you on this one? You should be marching up the capitol steps...

Congress and American media are controlled by the $$$$$. Rupert Murdoch and others are for changing the way we use the internet. They don't want people to share facts, because the facts are against them.

They are happier with spinning distorted facts. If they were to change anything, it should be stopping spin (distortion, leading away from truth). But no, they want to hide the truth. The only way they can hide the truth today is to eliminate the way people have been finding the facts, they chose to ignore.

Sad, sad, sad!

(from a Huffington Post article on Friday, Dec. 16th)"- After two days of debate, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) abruptly halted a key hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act, postponing a Committee vote on the bill until 2012. "

Anything to protect corporations and hurt consumers thats the american way!

"Congress to Resume SOPA Hearings Next Week"

Well gee, the feds pull down which ever website they want basically at their leisure... Which is why they can have many sites voluntarily remove plenty of stuff to spare them the effort.

(not to mention the lack of, or watered down first amendment rights on all these sites are subject to the will of advertisers... and often non-existent even in their pablum form...sanitized for commercial interests, much like drone-warfare....)

Not to concerned with it, done signed a petition or 3 already...

I think there is too much of a tendency to lean on this internet thing to begin with. It is so convenient to not have to leave the house. We almost never have to meet one another face to face. (And I am as guilty of this as anyone.) It is so safe to throw around ideas, while writing this politician and emailing that one. Let’s get one thing straight, if your letter doesn’t include a check, the politicians don’t care what you think. We mean nothing to them. They know that billions of dollars in Koch-funded ads will be flooding the market this year to back up the favored ones, and that half of the fickle-minded “independents” will be influenced by that nonsense. I don’t have the ultimate answer, but I know it will not be found pounding on the keyboard, contrary to the high technology mythology.

The House Judiciary committee's vote has been delayed until Wednesday, December 21.
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/sopa_vote_hit_with_surprise_delay/

Hit their phone lines hard. There is still time to kill SOPA while it's the committee.

By Wednesday many congressman will have left early for holiday.

If the House is still in session, the hearing on SOPA starts at 9:00 a.m. Wednesday, December 21. Whichever Congressman shows up to the SOPA hearings will have a lot of influence on deciding what comes out of the committee and if anything comes out of the committee.

So many websites will be shut down by SOPA because of the costs that are shifted unto them. The remaining ones will be forced to engage in massive censorship. Current itself will most likely shut down if this bill passes.

We should flood the members of the Judiciary Committee's Congressional phone lines to kill SOPA in the committee.

The members of the House Judiciary Committee by rank.

Chairman:
Lamar Smith (R) Texas, 21st district
Washington, DC Office Phone: 202-225-4236

Ranking Member:
John Conyers jr. (D) Michigan, 14th district
Washington, DC Office Phone: 202-225-5126

Jim Sensenbrenner, (R)Wisconsin 5th
DC Office Phone: 202- 225-5101

Howard Berman, (D) California 28th
DC Phone: 202-225-4695

Howard Coble, (R) North Carolina 6th
Phone: 202- 225-3065

Jerrold Nadler, (D) New York, 8th
202- 225-5635.

Elton Gallegly, (R) California, 24th
202- 225-5811

Bobby Scott, (D) Virginia, 3rd
202- 225-8351

Bob Goodlatte, (R) Virginia, 6th
202- 225-5431

Mel Watt, (D) North Carolina, 12th
202- 225-1510

Dan Lungren, (R) California, 3rd
202-225-5716

Zoe Lofgren, (D) California, 16th
202- 225-3072

Steve Chabot, (R) Ohio, 1st
202- 225-2216

Sheila Jackson-Lee, (D) Texas, 18th
202-225-3816

Darrell Issa, (R) California, 49th
202-225-3906

Maxine Waters, (D) California, 35th
202- 225-2201

Mike Pence, (R) Indiana, 6th
202- 225-3021

Steve Cohen, (D) Tennessee, 9th
202-225-3265

Randy Forbes, (R) Virginia, 4th
202- 225-6365

Hank Johnson, (D) Georgia, 4th
202- 225-1605

Steve King, (R) Iowa, 5th
202-.225-4426

Pedro Pierluisi, (D) Puerto Rico, Resident Commissioner
202- 225-2615

Trent Franks, (R) Arizona, 2nd
202-225-4576

Michael Quigley,(D) Illinois, 5th
202-225-4061

Louie Gohmert, (R) Texas, 1st
202- 225-3035

Judy Chu, (D) California, 32nd
202- 225-5464

Jim Jordan, (R) Ohio, 4th
202- 225-2676

Ted Deutch, (D) Florida, 19th
202-225-3001

Ted Poe, (R) Texas, 2nd
202- 225-6565

Linda Sánchez, (D) California, 39th
202-225-6676

Jason Chaffetz, (R) Utah, 3rd
202-225-7751

Jared Polis, (D) Colorado, 2nd
202- 225-2161

Timothy Griffin, (R) Arkansas, 2nd
202- 225-2506

Tom Marino, (R) Pennsylvania, 10th
202- 225-3731

Trey Gowdy, (R) South Carolina, 4th
202--225-6030

Dennis A. Ross, (R) Florida, 12th
202- 225-1252

Sandy Adams, (R) Florida, 24th
202- 225-2706

Ben Quayle, (R) Arizona, 3rd
202-225-3361

Mark Amodei, (R) Nevada, 2nd
202-225-6155

Tell them to vote "no" and kill SOPA in the committee.