CNN, owned by Turner Broadcasting, owned by Time Warner, which supports SOPA.
CNN covers SOPA on homepage
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#22So much effort on tackling SOPA. Three months later, there's a bill titled Stop Online Child Pornography. Then there's a lot of PR issues.
The companies should be demanding Internet Freedom bills to replace SOPA, DMCA, PROTECT-IP, COICA, CEST, OPENA, ACTA and more.
Take the fight back against the anti-Internet companies in the war against the Internet.
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#23"At stake, say supporters, are American jobs. Every free piece of content scraped to be sold, or given away, online takes money out of the pockets of record companies, movie producers and other content creators and their millions of employees.
Pharmaceutical companies, sports leagues and video-game makers have also voiced support.
"Especially in this time of economic recovery, we cannot stand by and watch while American companies and the jobs they support are being bled by foreign criminals who are taking advantage of a massive loophole in our law enforcement capabilities," wrote Steve Tepp, who works on counterfeiting and piracy issues for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "These illicit enterprises are not tolerated in the brick and mortar marketplace, so why would we allow them to flourish unchecked online?""
Rhetoric of SOPA supporters > Rhetoric of SOPA detractors, when it comes to winning public support. The message needs to be streamlined...
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except that it won't. An almost insignificantly small industry has an outrageous amount of influence compared to the industries that actually make real money and jobs in the US.
Just imagine what it would be like to make 10 times more money from iOS development say. Wouldn't you like that?
This is a classic case of the "prisoner's dilemma". By supporting the bill, you may increase your profit (but probably not by 10x). However, you interfere with legitimate businesses, and thus cause a net loss to society.
The threat is that some day, the other companies will support a law which is beneficial to them (and bad for you). Systemically, it is best for us to cooperate to achieve a group maximum
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#25If SOPA would increase your business income by 10 times, would you accept it then?
If SOPA would increase my business's income, I'd be in the wrong business, and I wouldn't be me.
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#26It's not mentioned in the article, but CNN has a dog in this fight with their iReport service. They receive and post a lot of user-generated content nowadays.
This is true to some extent or another for almost all of the major news sites. Even if they just have comments, they're aren't offering them out of the goodness of their hearts, it's because it's a cheap way to boost impressions, sometimes dramatically. (At least, this is why they existed when I worked for one of them.)
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#27So much effort on tackling SOPA. Three months later, there's a bill titled Stop Online Child Pornography. Then there's a lot of PR issues. The companies should be demanding Internet Freedom bills to replace SOPA, DMCA, PROTECT-IP, COICA, CEST, OPENA, ACTA and more. Take the fight back against the anti-Internet companies in the war against the Internet.
We need a government censorship engine for child pornography, and if you disagree, then obviously you are pro-child pornagraphy and can be ignored from public debate... Brilliant strategy. These guys are playing Chess. We need to be equally cunning.
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#28I am opposed to SOPA in the strongest sense possible coming from a nation where majority of internet users cannot afford content(music, software) at market prices let alone afford a good internet connection.
Was watching the president of the Motion Picture Association of America talk on Bloomberg West about their reasons for supporting SOPA and why SOPA is important and that guy(and those like him) is good at what he does. Those opposed to SOPA for now have confined the fight to blogs and videos on Youtube but we need to take the fight where it matters, to Washington and sway those who should be swayed to stop this thing.
Not an American citizen but american tech companies opposed to this should be talking to their lobbyists and not just posting statements on their sites
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#29So much effort on tackling SOPA. Three months later, there's a bill titled Stop Online Child Pornography. Then there's a lot of PR issues. The companies should be demanding Internet Freedom bills to replace SOPA, DMCA, PROTECT-IP, COICA, CEST, OPENA, ACTA and more. Take the fight back against the anti-Internet companies in the war against the Internet.
New laws take precedence over old laws. A hypothetical "Stop Online Child Pornography" act could trivially undo any internet freedom law.
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#30So much effort on tackling SOPA. Three months later, there's a bill titled Stop Online Child Pornography. Then there's a lot of PR issues. The companies should be demanding Internet Freedom bills to replace SOPA, DMCA, PROTECT-IP, COICA, CEST, OPENA, ACTA and more. Take the fight back against the anti-Internet companies in the war against the Internet.
We need a government censorship engine for child pornography, and if you disagree, then obviously you are pro-child pornagraphy and can be ignored from public debate... Brilliant strategy. These guys are playing Chess. We need to be equally cunning.
We need to give our children the Internet Freedom to create their own future. If you disagree, you hate children's futures and should not be part of politics.