Doug Hornig, Casey ResearchLovers of liberty have seemingly had a good bit to celebrate recently.
First, there was an unprecedented outpouring of negative public sentiment about the Congressional bills SOPA (House) and PIPA (Senate); they are legislation that would have thrown a large governmental monkey wrench into the relatively smooth-running cogs of the Internet. Millions of Americans signed online petitions against the bills after seeing websites’ various protests. Google shrouded its search page in black; Wikipedia and Reddit went dark entirely (although Wikipedia could be accessed if one read the information available via clicking the sole link on its protest page); Facebook and Twitter urged users to contact their representatives; and many other core Internet bSuch was the outpouring of dissent that even Washington, D.C. had to listen. The bills, which a week earlier had seem assured of swift passage, suddenly turned to poison. Supporters, forced to concede that the public really waspissed off this time, fled. Leadership in both houses tabled the legislation, pending further review and revision.
But before we get too self-congratulatory, however, it’s wise to note that this victory dish is probably best enjoyed with a serving of caution. As Casey Extraordinary Technology editor Alex Daley summed up the situation for us here at Casey Research: “Be sure this will come back again, likely post-election, and snuck through as part of a bigger package. It arrests power from the judiciary, and the legislature likes nothing more than to thumb its nose at those ridiculous judges and all their due process this and Constitution that. It will eventually pass, just not like this.” We can’t now go to sleep on this one.
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Comment:
My Son (16 yrs) came to me last week and asked if he could take off the school day to go to demonstrate outside the Dail against the proposed changes to curtail the freedoms we currently enjoy on the internet .When he came back he was disappointed as he told me the numbers of demonstrators was very disappointing. Thousands of people were going up and down Grafton Street shopping and hardly 15 people were outside the Dail trying to keep the internet free from corporate control .Now he knows why I am always so depressed when I come back from demonstrations .We all complain but very few of us are willing to get up off our backsides and fight for our hard won freedoms!
