Would Obama Veto SOPA? Extremely Doubtful
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Would Obama Veto SOPA? Extremely Doubtful
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#2I'll never forget what John Carpenter taught me in They Live. "The golden rule: He who has the gold makes the rules."
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#3Throughout his administration, the President has left almost all intellectual property issues up to Vice President Joe Biden
Classic. Leave IP issues to the plagiarist.
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#4Basis for an effective counterargument:
A gut feeling tells me that if somebody did an analysis of Obama's last campaign then they would find that he would have violated the current form of SOPA multiple times. A potential new argument against SOPA would be that it limits the campaigning power of political candidates, especially those running for higher offices.
Not a particularly strong argument, but I don't think a strong case will win this fight. Many different people from many walks of life need to be angry about SOPA before Obama could walk away from the bill easily with "The people don't want this." Nerds on the internet probably won't convince him alone.
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#5As I've said before, just look at what Joe Biden's been up to.
This post is on the mark. "The Internet's" problem is that it doesn't have anything to hold over Obama's head. Yet.
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#6There are some interesting points here, but the article misses one very, very important constituency (from the President's point of view, at least): the intelligence community. If the law remains as is and outlaws Tor, Obama will have the head of every intelligence agency in his office telling him to veto the bill or put the nation at risk.
If the law is amended to allow Tor (as was attempted) and then passes, then how long before Tor becomes a household name?
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#7Basis for an effective counterargument: A gut feeling tells me that if somebody did an analysis of Obama's last campaign then they would find that he would have violated the current form of SOPA multiple times. A potential new argument against SOPA would be that it limits the campaigning power of political candidates, especially those running for higher offices. Not a particularly strong argument, but I don't think a…
Obama's not running his last campaign. That's done and over with. It's as simple as that.
Re: Would Obama Veto SOPA? Extremely Doubtful
#8There are some interesting points here, but the article misses one very, very important constituency (from the President's point of view, at least): the intelligence community. If the law remains as is and outlaws Tor, Obama will have the head of every intelligence agency in his office telling him to veto the bill or put the nation at risk. If the law is amended to allow Tor (as was attempted) and then passes, then h…
Is Tor really that important?
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#9leading into what may be a difficult election year, and dependent on money from Hollywood and unions (the big Democratic funders), this is an easy call.
There is no way that Obama hasn't taken the temperature on SOPA by now. Obama's most vocal liberal base will transform into an internet hate machine to rival the likes of the tea party if SOPA is signed. There is also the Ron Paul crew capturing more and more Democratic voters by the day, a signature on SOPA would be an incredible windfall for them in terms of people who would refuse to vote for Obama out of pure anger.
I don't underestimate the influence of these interests in Washington, but SOPA is really unpopular right now and getting more so by the day.
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#10Throughout his administration, the President has left almost all intellectual property issues up to Vice President Joe Biden Classic. Leave IP issues to the plagiarist.
Plagarist?