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crom99Jan 21, 2012
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Closed AccountJan 22, 2012
great movie reference and great work. dugg for winning.
crom99Jan 22, 2012
If SOPA had passed, that comment could have shut down Digg.
Closed AccountJan 22, 2012
good thing it didn't pass.
tigerglebe245Jan 22, 2012
And they aren't being arrested for bribery, conspiracy and RICO violations why?
agmlauncherJan 22, 2012
Because Americans, as a whole, don't have the balls to enact their second amendment rights.
thespookJan 22, 2012
Those who pay for legislation aren't going to let themselves get arrested. That would be silly.
Graf_OrlockJan 21, 2012
Such a weasel. I'm amazed anyone has any respect for him.
dusanmalJan 21, 2012
If people just realized the same when they jammed Dodd-Frank down our collective throats... Same thing - Government power grab and assault on freedoms.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
al3efromanJan 22, 2012
It's actually the opposite: corporate power grab and assault on freedoms.
Graf_OrlockJan 22, 2012
Same as with Dodd-Frank. The real winner there was Walmart, but they clothed the act as pro-consumer.
juststeveJan 22, 2012
Not opposite. One in the same.
StopAnimalTortureJan 22, 2012
Bingo.
leodinJan 22, 2012
Corporate power IS government power. I would think with SOPA, people would start to realize that. These big corporations are nothing if they don't have the government to back their bulls**t.
angrycat70Jan 22, 2012
The MPAA has done a good job of making themselves so obnoxious that no one wants anything to do with them.
johnnysoftwareJan 22, 2012
I think motion picture artists should go on strike against the MPAA. /s
How many of them work for it?
It's not really a motion picture artists association, is it?
It's just a copyright-holder's association, right?
typhoidhippoJan 22, 2012
MPAA stands for Motion Pictures Association of America, but yes, you're right about what it basically is.
juststeveJan 22, 2012
as a life long leaning leftist....pains me to say - this be dem dems. Which party choose to bail on supporting SOPA?
odouls78777Jan 22, 2012
Given how many people came together on the 18th via the collective internet, I wonder if it wouldn't be a solid idea to create our own collective lobby / lobbyist. Think about it, a lobby that spoke directly to, and donated just as much as the MPAA and RIAA et al, the politicians that decide policy. I'd send that organization $10 if they lobbied on my behalf and that of the collective internet crowd.
mtownJan 22, 2012
But then we'd be just as bad as they are. How about just eliminate corporate (AND UNION) donations/gifts and lobbying? Politicians should be smart enough to know what Americans want on their own. Right now it's basically, "I support whoever gave me the most money".
Graf_OrlockJan 22, 2012
amen. This crap has got to be reined in.
breadfredJan 22, 2012
Agreed. And a limit per person of let us say $1000.- per year. Of course some fail-safes as minimum age (same as voting age) and a full track record of all donations.
asrrin29Jan 22, 2012
There is already a personal limit of $2000 per person that corporations get to loophole their way around.
rightfutureJan 23, 2012Submitter
I think we need to stop all money influence in politics and political elections.
Have a public pool, donated tv time and ad time.
Make all politicians run on an equal basis without money.
Outlaw lobbying.
Politicians must represent the will of the people first, and only.
drekJan 22, 2012
Take a look at the EFF (Electronic Frontiers Foundation). It's be around since the mid-90s dealing with Internet issues.
evildeadashJan 22, 2012
They go from politician's to lobbyist's and from lobbyist's to politician's... back and forth, rinse and repeat. And we wonder why we're in the mess we're in.
TSWJan 22, 2012
Sign the petition to have Dodd investigated for bribery: http://wh.gov/KiE
StopAnimalTortureJan 22, 2012
"It really makes you wonder what he's thinking and how someone so incompetent at this could keep his job."
I don't have to wonder too hard, though. I think it is probably the case that most people voting for people like Dodd are not young and internet saavy. They usually get carried forward by the weight of momentum as incumbents. However, as things rapidly change in society, the Dodds of the world can not keep up. Nor can the majority of their voting constituents.
It is more than likely, I think, that very few of them encountered this critique, and among those who have supported Dodd, that they would get more than a few sentences in before simply tuning out. Much the same way that Digg Liberals tune out everything and anything that might cause them to have to question their assumptions by one simple expedient - don't click links that have titles which indicate any kind of criticism of this Administration, it's party, it's allies, or its policies. Very simple. So I would expect Doddsters to behave exactly the same way.
No big mystery. It's called 'ignorance'.
mybrothers111Jan 22, 2012
Dodd is saying that the politicians come running to him for donations when they need money to get reelected.(politicians jobs on line) and that when Dodd gives them the money its so that the politician votes for Dodds agenda, which if passed saves the jobs/Profits of the Hollywood corporations. See simple. So Dodd is telling our congressmen and senators that if you want the money, you must vote on the bills Dodd approves of or you will not get the donations from him in your time of need. QuidProQuo???
asaone1Jan 22, 2012
To hell with Chris Dodd and his MPAA and the RIAA these idiots need to be thought a lesson on civics and why it's not a good thing to threaten congress. Last time I checked it was still the United States of America, not the United States of MPAA/RIAA. Chris Dodd a former Senator should be on his hands and knees begging for forgiveness from the American people and then tar and feathered and then thrown in jail for a few years with no movies or music just his new cellmate for entertainment. .
johnnysoftwareJan 22, 2012
In the House of Lords, he would definitely spent all of his time planted on the right side instead of sitting on the left side.
Though the guy running the Banking committee during TARP bank bailouts is probably not the best framer of ideas for equitable intellectual property protection, there does need to be a balance struck between fair use and mooching.
Right now, we have robbers at both ends and the people that want to be fair and do pay for stuff stuck in the middle.
In the middle of a war that shouldn't even be being fought.
emersoniaJan 22, 2012
they sound like a badly written dialogue for a movie about organized crime syndicates...... hollywood has perpetuated the myths and stereotypes about the sexes, about races, about violence, about chaaracter, about glamour, and done a whole lot to undermine democratic american values under the guise of "profit" and "it's what the people want" .... and now this.... i think hollywood and the entertainment industry in general has a 1% reasonable and good rate and a 99% stinking glamorize violence, promote hate rate....
johnnysoftwareJan 22, 2012
No, that stuff really goes on.
It's just that the people doing it are riding in cars, not on the backs of dragons and an evil wizard is probably just good at twisting words not weaving spells.
Wars are not being invented by Hollywood. They've been around since we were living in caves. Wars affect Hollywood since they affect the country, and also because the War Department, as it used to be called, ask them to.
I think gangsters, corrupt politicians, dishonest bankers have only themselves to blame. A lot of the time, the reason these characters make it into films is because the author of a story wanted to call attention to a problem that already existed which was running rampant.
US politics became much more hate filled in the mid-1990s when one party decided to get more votes that way and never looked back.
Now, everyone is looking back for them at that past 15 years and what they say and what they do are two completely different things.
diefreeJan 22, 2012
The MPAA and RIAA along with any political whores they bought are traitors and should be treated as such.
jlodyga083Jan 21, 2012
gotta love it , to bad he did not name anyone .