Obama Administration Comes Out Against SOPA And Protect IP

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It increasingly looks like the SOPA/Protect IP fights are turning into an example of how the political system sometimes does work correctly after all. The con forces on these bills initially looked numerically overwhelmed in congress and hugely outspent. But opponents really mobilized vocally, got people and institutions who don't normally focus on politics to write about this, and perhaps most important of all demonstrated that more people genuinely cared about this issue than most members of congress initially realized. Now the momentum has slowed incredibly and the White House technology policy team has come out against these bills.
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/01/14/obama_administration_comes_out_against_sopa_and_protect_ip.html
 
Lol! Day 1 ... Sign dodgy act.... Day 2 .... Denounce other dodgy act.
 
We can be sure that these laws will be back in some form. Various vested interests are paying their government puppets a lot of money to get the laws in place.

Amongst the dodgiest aspects of US lawmaking is attaching some unrelated, usually unpopular, proposed law to a popular proposed law. As a result the unpopular law that could never get passed gets sneaked through.
 
I don't think this is important in the sense that Obama's administration is going to put a stop to it specifically, just that the backlash has reached as high as it can go, which is good.
 
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