Looming Red

Who is responsible for SOPA and PIPA? Who is driving the greatest censorship attempt in US history? Here is the list of SOPA supporters.

Whatever their goal of stopping their products from being distributed for free, these bills do not accomplish this. These bills will hurt far more than the likes of The Pirate Bay and Torrentz. To begin with, these bills for the information super highway are like thousands of checkpoints on our physical highways stopping all traffic checking for a few car thieves. The bills go further, because anyone may accuse anyone else of copyright infringement and the default of the site being accused will be guilty and liable of fines and lawsuits until that site proves otherwise.

If you are a company who doesn’t like a competitor’s google ranking, you can accuse them of infringement and have them embroiled in legal defenses and potential shutdown until they disprove the allegation. The language in the bill is broad enough that the Justice Department of any presidency may define it however they would like. If you are a small carpet cleaning business that has worked hard on getting a good search engine ranking, your competitor can destroy you because you were using a single image that you did not know was copyrighted.

Review sections of product websites could be shutdown because product makers could claim copyright infringement as their cruddy products are rightly criticized by consumers. Social networking sites could be embroiled in lawsuits until they setup content filtration or member banning for supposed public use of even the names of companies. Google, Yahoo, and Bing could be forced to remove ads, listing, organic search results, and more when they are ruled liable for any search results they come back with.

The whole passage of these bills is information D-Day.

So, are the “artists” responsible, or is it just their distribution channels who are to blame? It doesn’t matter. That a ditzy hollywood starlet has no clue what Disney is doing on her behalf is unfortunate, but it means nothing. The effect is the same, because her employers, the ones with the cash to pay her, and her union, the Screen Actors Guild, are the ones setting the rules and passing their bill on to congress to claim as their own.

Most bills are not technically written by Congress People or Senators. The technical legal language is written mostly by whomever is doing the lobbying. Bills often come pre-drafted, and the less-than-adept legislator simply puts his or her name on the bill as the author who will seek sponsorship from other legislators. This was true of much of Obamacare, Campaign Finance Reform, and even going way back to the creation of the Federal Reserve System. While many bills are written straight from the desks of conniving or foolish legislators, a lot of legislation is written by lobbyists from the private sector, even Socialist or often Fascist (both Marxist) legislation.

Why would “capitalists” go for this stuff or even participate in the creation of it? They simply see the writing on the wall. They see that the trend of government is to further and further control economies and they see that there is limited seating at the table of control, so they try to beat others to one of those limited seats. It the old adage: If you are not at a seat at the table, you are on the menu. These entertainment companies see an opportunity of profiting by a seat at the table of greater restrictions on economies.

It is a social taboo to use the label Fascist. So often, that label is used by people that are ill-educated or even crazy. The label brings up images of Itallian “black shirts”, swastika armbands bands, and concentration camps. People forget, however, that fascism with well-defined political philosophy before its supporters committed their atrocities.

Make no mistake, these two bills are Fascism and not just Socialism. They are not seeking that the government take on ownership of the websites, et al that are said to infringe on copyrights. Marxism is government control of markets and socialism is the government confiscation and ownership route to that control. Fascism is the government regulation and private ownership route to government control of markets. These two bills are Fascism and the Hollywood, Music, and News industry fools who so easily slander everyone with the Fascist label also easily accept the fascism of those who sell the distribution of their content.

Please view the following video for more education:

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

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