Throwing Hollywood under the bus could pay dividends for GOP
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Throwing Hollywood under the bus could pay dividends for GOP
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Re: Throwing Hollywood under the bus could pay dividends for GOP
#2I would hate to see this become a partisan issue. There are plenty of people on every side who hate this crap.
Re: Throwing Hollywood under the bus could pay dividends for GOP
#3So is the way of politics.
But arguably now that most of the people who usually vote dems for other reasons take SOPA/PIPA seriously, the only dem candidates that will stand a chance will be people taking their money outside MPAA/RIAA
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#4I would hate to see this become a partisan issue. There are plenty of people on every side who hate this crap.
I'd be happy to see the parties compete on this issue of how to make Hollywood and friends no longer a threat to free speech and the net.
Democrats could push for European-style subsidy of production. Republicans could push for letting the market work - advertising, product placement, etc are all that's needed. Both programs can agree on eliminating copyright for entertainment works.
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#5I would hate to see this become a partisan issue. There are plenty of people on every side who hate this crap.
On the flip side, making it a partisan issue implies a solid opposition, making such laws harder to pass without anyone noticing. We're stuck with this ugly system at the moment, may as well take what we can get from it.
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#6I would hate to see this become a partisan issue. There are plenty of people on every side who hate this crap.
Obviously, the best situation would be for majorities in both parties to be against this stuff. But a world where Republicans are against it and Dems are for it is much better than the world we've had for the last few years, in which both parties were on Hollywood's side.
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#7I would hate to see this become a partisan issue. There are plenty of people on every side who hate this crap.
On the contrary, it would be fantastic for this to become a partisan issue. Competition works just as well in the political arena as it does in the marketplace.
Parties don't always take opposite sides of each issue. Frequently, they try to take the higher ground by claiming they do "more" ...
Wouldn't it be wonderful for both parties to compete as to who opposes draconian garbage like SOPA/PIPA more?
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#8While this may work in the short term, this is exactly what I was worried about - for Internet freedom to become a partisan issue - with some standing to defend Internet freedom, and others wanted to restrict it. Because that means that eventually a party or a candidate will be elected to implement those restrictions. That would be an awful outcome, and I hope we can maintain Internet freedom as bi-partisan, or better yet, non-partisan.
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#9Great! Now if the Republicans also cut their ties to religion and stopped wasting so much money on war zones, they could become a party worth voting for.
Re: Throwing Hollywood under the bus could pay dividends for GOP
#10Wow. I did not realize Al Franken was a PIPA co-sponsor.