Thread: Congress drops SOPA, PIPA still alive
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Old 01-17-2012, 02:50 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak View Post
From The Mac Observer:

In response to both SOPA and PIPA, House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) launched what he’s calling the Keep The Web OPEN Project to underscore the importance of a free and open Internet and to offer up alternative legislation for protecting intellectual property while avoiding online censorship.
I find thie above quote disturbing. Whilst nice on the surface I don't believe that there is a way to protect most of the intellectual property concerned, or at least not one remotely consistent with individual freedom and freedom of expression.

Does this mean that now we have been properly terrified by SOPA and PIPPA we will be expected to support less extreme but still abhorrent measures as the lesser evil? Trojan horses are not confined just to the world of computer viruses.
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