http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/19/sopa_anti_piracy_or_censorship_wikipedias
It's not even what that woman is saying that I distrust, it's the way she's saying it.
Here's the actual and current wording of SOPA
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/112%20HR%203261.pdfFound here :
http://search.house.gov/htbin/searchSo yeah, if you read it carefully, you can see she's full of shit. As well as the
whole pro-SOPA lobby that pretends the bill can't censor the web. It definetly can. And they definetly never read it.
Here's the part
that would even have infringed the Magna Carta :
Page 13 :
"RELIEF.On application of the Attorney
2 General following the commencement of an action
3 under this section, the court may issue a temporary
4 restraining order, a preliminary injunction, or an in5
junction, in accordance with rule 65 of the Federal
6 Rules of Civil Procedure, against a registrant of a
7 domain name used by the foreign infringing site or
8 an owner or operator of the foreign infringing site
9 or, in an action brought in rem under paragraph
10 (2), against the foreign infringing site or a portion
11 of such site, or the domain name used by such site,
12 to cease and desist from undertaking any further ac13
tivity as a foreign infringing site."That is, shoot first, think second. Guilty until proved innocent.
The following part extends this "ceizure" of service to virtually anything US based. That is, search engines, payment sites, advertisers etc. are explicitly mentioned.
Actually, the best way to circumvent this law if it ever passes is to use that tiny loophole and make the ceizure of service to foreign sites impossible. It may be possible to design a crafty network architecture and a system into which even the owners couldn't delete entries without crashing the whole thing (and then, the censorship could be declared as unreasonable).
