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Didn't they try to pass a bill like this before?
I vaguely remember something very, very similar to this being shot down.
Yes, that was the COICA Internet censorship bill, and I'll bet that if the current two get shot down as well, we'll see two new versions next year.
Ah, thanks for the answer-- I knew I'd heard of similar before.
To other people on this forum, more informed than I am, any idea when we'll hear whether this thing gets passed or not?
Also, to me, it seems like this whole thing is just some political theater by Congress to hide the fact that they haven't/aren't really doing much.
Today November 16th was the day the House of Judiciary Committee i guess evaluated the bill, it hasnt even been voted in the House yet (it was formed by the House's Judiciary Committee though)
and Congress is just playing politics. Refusing to make compromise to try to make the other party look bad. The reason they're forming this bill not because for shits and giggles but because lobbyist want this bill to pass it's amazing what you can do when you're a rich person that forms a group with other rich people to protect yourself from the law or get laws passed.
You know, we go around assassinating bad guys in other countries, but we don't do much about the bad guys we have here if they have money :/
We take down a fair number of justly elected governments for financial gain as well- Guatemala or Chile or even Iran (well, that last one is *slightly* different because it involves a non-domestic company). It's really more about the money than good or evil. Same thing with the whole "capitalism vs communism" debate on a grossly oversimplified level (communist countries don't make good markets).
That aside, I'd be surprised if something was passed, enforced, and not repealed. Whatever else you want to call the US government, it's a giant red tape machine, and this makes for some messy work. It had more ground when wikileaks was still a media darling, the public has far too short an attention span to wait a full year. If someone with the means really wanted something like this passed that badly, it would have happened last time.
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