SOPA is back, that is right people, the bill that is threatening to take away our freedoms on the internet and beyond is BACK, and not only is it back, but it is trying to be passed quietly so nobody notices, SOPA will guarantee that anybody who streams a video, whether it be on youtube, a walkthrough for a video game, or a kid singing a song that is 'copyrighted' they will be treated as a felon, that is right, a FELON, do you understand me? YOU will be treated like the highest form of criminal for uploading a video game walkthrough on youtube, for singing a song on karaoke, hell, you could be arrested and treated as a felon for posting a screenshot...

Now, why am I telling you this? Because this is only just the beginning, how long until fanfiction is being attacked, how long until a fanfiction writer is being carted off to a maximum state prison for writing a FIM story? I assure you that if this passes, it will not be long, oh no, it will not be long at all, because once this passes, then ANYTHING goes, fanfiction will be attacked for using canon characters in a fanon manner, authors will be arrested for writing a book whose main character has glasses, just like in another series, artists will be arrested and confined for using sapphire blue in the iris of one of their characters like another author. We CANNOT let this happen!

Don't believe us? Look at the links below, see for yourself, and please, PLEASE spread the word and fight this assault on our freedoms, because this isn't just going to affect americans, oh no, it will affect EVERYBODY across the globe!

www.huffingtonpost.com /2013/08/07/unauthorized-streaming-felony_n_3720479.html

www.washingtonpost.com /blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/05/sopa-died-in-2012-but-obama-administration-wants-to-revive-part-of-it/

www.techdirt.com /articles/20130805/12472124074/administration-cant-let-go-wants-to-bring-back-felony-streaming-provisions-sopa.shtml

SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!!!

THE PETITION!!!!

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/stop-sopa-2013/LMzMVrQF

1585109 SOPA. Dropped the SOAP.

1585122 SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!!!!! THE SOPA IS COMING, THE SOPA IS COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!

1585109
... I wonder what this new slip up will do to Obama's approval ratings...

1585129 IF HE'S SMART HE'LL REJECT THIS!!!!!! THE END IS NIGH!!!!!!! HURRY SPREAD THE WORD!!!! GET A PETITION GOING!!!!!!!!! EVERYONE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1585109 Oh shit, it's happening again.

1585133 Calm your tits, I found a petition.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/stop-sopa-2013/LMzMVrQF

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DON'T WORRY! MY BLOG POST WILL ATTRACT PEOPLE!!
WHY ARE WE YELLING?

1585142 Oh. Good.

1585109 Luckily, I don't live in the US of A. Yay for me. Still, SOPA should never be approved. Where's Anonymous?

Really America? First NSA, now SOPA?

1585146 Yay. I live in Australia though, SOPA will spread. Ever so slowly...

1585160 George Orwell was right, this is 1984.

Great. So Hotmail locked me out of my email because it send a security code to a nonexistent phone.

1585146 It will spread............... Like a disease. Ravaging everyone with it's vile nature until all the Earth is but a barren wasteland unfit for human life. This is the future that awaits us should SOPA past.

1585209 I'd say it is connected - government power and all that. We NEED to stop SOPA from being passed!

1585109 I'm Canadian. So I should care why?

1585143

Why do governments insist on practically ruling the internet?

It's basic concept: the internet is for use by all. Don't put a choker on a dog that'll bite.

So when the PS4 come's out the share button on the handset will be a felony to use?
Something that SONY are actively Promoting?

Glad i aint livin in the USofA - your senators wouldn't understand a normal point of view if it slapped them with a soggy fish.

Well there goes Obama's third term. And um what else was I going to say? Oh right...AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Typical Americans if this gets past then the government will be hated in so much that everyone will DIE. Don't pass SOPA!

1585109

Defeated the first time by a Conservative vote, supported by a Liberal majority.....seriously libs stay off my internet!

Oh, great! Here we go again......!!!

When are those horseapples in DC gonna get it?! Messin' with the Internet is messin' with the First Amendment! And if ya can't censor porn off the Internet because'a the First Amendment, they shouldn't be able to keep resurrecting this crapload of horseapples time after time after time!

Politicians in the U.S. are stone-cold stupid, ya know that.....??

Btw, I went and signed that petition. I juts hope that we get enough signatures by the deadline.

1585129 Put 'em so far down in the dumpster that he'll never recover, hopefully.

Seriously, though, the man has done so much damage to this country that he really, really needs to be impeached.

This again? You realize that this isn't even really about controlling the internet (well, not just about controlling the internet), but about money, right? Think about it. If the government can control what is said and done on the internet, they can tax it, too. They've had their eye on this particular bonanza of free speech for some time now. Funny how the one's who profess the sanctity of freedom are the first to try to stifle it.

1585129
Depends on who you ask. The majority of people bamboozled by him the first two times around will no doubt say that this will do nothing to him (which may be true, given the way he "governs" by making sure nothing can be tied back to him directly).

1585922

I juts hope that we get enough signatures by the deadline.

Don't worry. I just checked back in with it, and it's at 9,424 now. This morning it was 8,282. If we can keep that number going that strong we'll win easy

1585109 Okay, as soon as I read this thread, this song came on.

1585795 What's so bad about liberals?

1586509

Oh idk it was libs that pushed this bill in the first place?

Remember libs want to regulate everything. We conservatives, on the other hoof, don't approve of such government intrusion.

1586362 Okay, good. That makes me feel lots better.

Hey, people in this country don't like SOPA now anymore than they did the first time around, and I seriously doubt that their (our) attitudes toward it will get any better the more that the idiots in D.C. keep trying to pass it.

1586725 Agreed!

At 10,294 now! WOOOO!!!! ONLY 89,706 more to go!!!!!!

1586883 Thank you!

Really?! Cool! At this rate, we'll have more than enough votes by the September deadline!

1587371 10,865 now!!!

1586703 I don't know much, but isn't that the other way around? I'm very sorry if I offend you, and why do you use the term "lib"?

1587377 Even cooler!!!

1590017 13, 000 exactly!!! Okay, I'll stop with the updates now as I get the feeling I may be annoying. Anyway, point is that if we can get a few thousand a day like this, then we'll have more than enough before the 21st

Its not even a big deal. It wont pass, and if it did pass the public backlash would be worse than the xbox one reveal.

Its so outrageous that it wont stick, the cost far out weights any benefit.

>MFW

SOPA is love.
SOPA is life.

Um, uh....
Have some presentations.