SOPA: Mark Up To Continue Tomorrow Dec. 21 at At 9:00 a.m. !
source: http://bostinno.com/2011/12/20/sopa-will-kill-the-internet/
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Last week, the House Judiciary Committee held a markup on H.R.3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act or “SOPA,” a bill to address the problems of online copyright and trademark infringement. The controversial nature of the legislation is reflected by the fact that Members offered more than 55 amendments to the legislation, and the markup could not be completed as scheduled. The Committee has announced that the markup will resume on December 21.
Stealing music, movies, and other forms of copyrighted materials is wrong, and the problem of online infringement is real. But the bill is not an appropriate solution. It’s a blunderbuss rather than a more narrowly tailored response, and its stiff penalties would pose a significant risk to legitimate websites and services. It would undermine the openness and free exchange of information at the heart of the Internet. And it would violate the First Amendment.
A key provision of the bill would give copyright owners the power to stop online advertisers and credit card processors from doing business with a website, merely by filing a unilateral notice that the site is “dedicated to the theft of U.S. property” – even if no court has actually found that infringement has occurred. The immunity provisions in the bill create an overwhelming incentive for advertisers and payment processors to comply with such a request upon receipt. Courts have always treated such cutoffs of revenue as a suppression of speech, and the silencing of expression in the absence of judicial review is a classic prior restraint forbidden by the First Amendment.
Moreover, the bill’s definition of a site “dedicated to” theft is vague and subjective, in violation of longstanding constitutional precedent that rules regulating speech must give clear notice of what they prohibit. The ambiguous definition will impermissibly chill protected communication....
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corderodedios
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"Opposition" Congressmen? They cannot be considered "opposition" if they are too limp to do their job. But they're not. They're not "opposition." They're in favor of it but are too weak and flaccid to put their real positions on the record.
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corderodedios
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Dagum
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The shill and leader of the Pro-SOPA faction is the Chairman of House Judiciary Committee, Republican Lamar Smith. Ironically, the opposition leader of the Anti-SOPA faction within the committee is fellow Republican Darrell E. Issa(who happens to be an engineer.)
Here is the Official House schedule.
http://www.house.gov/legislative/date/2011-12-21
Lamar Smith is trying every trick he can, to get SOPA out of committee. It looks like Darrell Issa and many other congressman from the opposition have left congress for holiday vacation right now. So Lamar Smith will be able to ram it out of committee tomorrow.
Once it gets out onto the floor it will be impossible to stop. If SOPA is going to be stopped it has to be stopped in Committee. Call the congressman of the House Judiciary committee and tell them to vote against it!
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Dagum
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Dagum
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Dagum:
The members of the House Judiciary Committee by rank.
Chairman:
Lamar Smith (R) Texas, 21st district
Washington, DC Office Phone: 202-225-4236Ranking Member:
John Conyers jr. (D) Michigan, 14th district
Washington, DC Office Phone: 202-225-5126Jim Sensenbrenner, (R)Wisconsin 5th
DC Office Phone: 202- 225-5101Howard Berman, (D) California 28th
DC Phone: 202-225-4695Howard Coble, (R) North Carolina 6th
Phone: 202- 225-3065Jerrold Nadler, (D) New York, 8th
202- 225-5635.Elton Gallegly, (R) California, 24th
202- 225-5811Bobby Scott, (D) Virginia, 3rd
202- 225-8351Bob Goodlatte, (R) Virginia, 6th
202- 225-5431Mel Watt, (D) North Carolina, 12th
202- 225-1510Dan Lungren, (R) California, 3rd
202-225-5716Zoe Lofgren, (D) California, 16th
202- 225-3072Steve Chabot, (R) Ohio, 1st
202- 225-2216Sheila Jackson-Lee, (D) Texas, 18th
202-225-3816Darrell Issa, (R) California, 49th
202-225-3906Maxine Waters, (D) California, 35th
202- 225-2201Mike Pence, (R) Indiana, 6th
202- 225-3021Steve Cohen, (D) Tennessee, 9th
202-225-3265Randy Forbes, (R) Virginia, 4th
202- 225-6365Hank Johnson, (D) Georgia, 4th
202- 225-1605Steve King, (R) Iowa, 5th
202-.225-4426Pedro Pierluisi, (D) Puerto Rico, Resident Commissioner
202- 225-2615Trent Franks, (R) Arizona, 2nd
202-225-4576Michael Quigley,(D) Illinois, 5th
202-225-4061Louie Gohmert, (R) Texas, 1st
202- 225-3035Judy Chu, (D) California, 32nd
202- 225-5464Jim Jordan, (R) Ohio, 4th
202- 225-2676Ted Deutch, (D) Florida, 19th
202-225-3001Ted Poe, (R) Texas, 2nd
202- 225-6565Linda Sánchez, (D) California, 39th
202-225-6676Jason Chaffetz, (R) Utah, 3rd
202-225-7751Jared Polis, (D) Colorado, 2nd
202- 225-2161Timothy Griffin, (R) Arkansas, 2nd
202- 225-2506Tom Marino, (R) Pennsylvania, 10th
202- 225-3731Trey Gowdy, (R) South Carolina, 4th
202--225-6030Dennis A. Ross, (R) Florida, 12th
202- 225-1252Sandy Adams, (R) Florida, 24th
202- 225-2706Ben Quayle, (R) Arizona, 3rd
202-225-3361Mark Amodei, (R) Nevada, 2nd
202-225-6155Call them and tell them to vote "no" and kill SOPA in the committee.
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Dagum
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MotherForTruth
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Dagum:
Will do first thing in the morning! Thank you!
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