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Democrats Are the Ones Pushing Web Censorship
MPAA head Chris Dodd is the former Democratic powerhouse (the same guy who blocked all financial reform). Dodd and Lieberman – another Democrat – have admitted that they want to emulate Chinese style censorship.
Moreover, Raw Story notes:
Democrats are now the core pillars of support for the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), which has not otherwise engendered a strict partisan divide among lawmakers.
Far and away, the top beneficiary in the Senate from interest groups that support PIPA is Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), who’s taken in just short of a million dollars from those groups, according to data from OpenSecrets.org. She’s also the most recent Senator to co-sponsor PIPA, adding her name to the list on Dec. 12. The runner-up is Sen. Al Franken (D-MN), who’s taken $777,383 from PIPA-supporting interest groups, and has co-sponsored the bill since May 2011.
In fact, a list of the top 20 beneficiaries of special interest money in favor of PIPA reads like a list of the Senate’s most influential Democrats: Sen. Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY) in third; Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) in fourth; Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in fifth; Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the bill’s primary sponsor, in sixth; Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) in seventh; Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) in eighth; Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) in ninth; and Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) in tenth.
The list goes on like that until Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who places 15th with $274,600 in special interest money promoting PIPA. He has not yet announced an official position on the bill. The only other Republican on the list of the top 20 PIPA beneficiaries in the Senate is Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), in 19th place with $212,312. Corker is one of the bill’s co-sponsors.
In total, only two Democrats changed their minds on PIPA during Wednesday’s blackouts: Sens. Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR). The other 11 to walk away were all Republicans, who seem more open to Silicon Valley’s warnings against onerous, job-killing regulations.
That may be due to the total sum donated to Democrats on the top 20 list: groups supporting PIPA have given over $7,319,983 to the 18 Democrats on the top 20 list, according to a Raw Story analysis. By contrast, those same Democrats have only taken in $807,502 from groups opposing the legislation.
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As yesterday’s strike wore on, Raw Story reached out to all the leading Democratic senators supporting PIPA, in hopes they would step up to defend the bill. Not a single one did, and none of Raw Story’s requests for comments defending PIPA received responses.
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The Obama administration said recently that it was hedging its bets on the anti-piracy bills as well ….
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Sunday during an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press that he would move forward with a full Senate vote on PIPA in the coming weeks, once some of the text had been altered to build consensus on the legislation.
We are wholly non-partisan, but this sell out by Dems on censorship has to be named for what it is.
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Which party has owned the educational apparatus in this country for the last fifty years, (and more)? That is the reason that the public can't think their way out of this multifold quandary that is coming perilously close to terminating us. The problem is rooted in the philosophical grounding of the Dems and the general incompetence of thought that they fostered as a means of expanding the "plantation".
Yes, one party is more to blame than the other. There is evil. There is good. And there is the in-between. The repubs were dragged along by the dems decade by decade into ever-escalating vote-buying campaigns. The path of least resistance became over time the only path. One needs two responsible parties in order "to keep a republic", (just one won't do). We have not had that in a very long time. And it has finally caught up with us.
And the repubs have become dem-lites because they had to do so in order to survive. Because increasing numbers of dumbed-down voters don't want to hear the truth about fiscal responsibility and the necessities of national defense. They want to hear about unsustainable entitlements being expanded.
Dude pass the pipe, Repubs are now Dem-lite??!!! Yeah think again the right is more radicalized than ever. I'm talking the party's followers more so than the actual politicians.
BLAH BLAH 'republicrats this, demicans that'...all just BS.
Agreed SD1.
It's not a political party trying to impose censorship...it's the GOVERNMENT doing it.
We all need to stick together on this and not let anyone divide and conquer us.
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The most vocal opponents of free speech are on the left.
Go to any university in the US and attend a speech given by any conservative and you'll see the speaker shouted down.
It's all about diversity of thought, so long as it's their thought.
one party - to elect a chief exectutive with a single minded focus and mission -
the # 1 of the president of the united states is - to trick people into believing in the future - so wall street can steal their money
There isn't Democrats and Republicans anymore. It's Libertarians and Progressives (which make up 15% of Congress, and some of THOSE people have their noses dirty) vs Corporate Fascists and Communists (85%). Plain and simple.
I lot of people are smacking GW around for using a team red/blue meme. There really is a left/right in this country, its just that team red/blue uses them as cannon fodder to move their agenda forward. I think GW has penned more then enough articles on the subject that peeps around here should be cutting him some slack. He knows the deal.
I assume hes just merely pointing out the hypocrisy of team blue (the personal freedom anything goes party) on this occasion, as opposed to team red (big corporate and fascist oppression party) and giving everyone the heads up on what lies to keep an eye out for this news cycle.
Maybe the TPTB are getting so stressed out that they are starting to forget which side is suppossed to be which.
Why cut him slack for ignorant headlines like this? It just makes ZH look as dumb as Huffpo, MSNBC, Faux and the rest. Might as well just jump in the hot tub with Chris Matthews, George, ya'll can scratch his tingly leg and babble red/blue bullshit all night long (FFS).
But Husk what is actually WRONG about that headline??? Is it not true that the top 15 people pushing it and accepting money to do so are Dems?! I do not see anywhere in the article that George is suggesting that ONLY the dems are pushing for this rather that they are leading the push. Just my $0.02
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I agree, I believe this article was George's way of showing the hypocrisy that is so apparent in the false left/right paradigm.
Keep up the good fight George I'm on your side! \m/
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So now there’s a difference between the D and R parties? Exactly when did that happen?
The day America wakes up and realizes it's not Republicans vs Democrats (or any other such divisions) and the true battle is between the 99.9% versus the top 400 families. It's not the top 1% who control this country and own the congress - it's the top 0.01%
The top 400 families own as much as the bottom 60% combined. Only six companies control the media in the United States.
Massive power is consolidated in a very few hands.
George are you trying to imply that there is some material difference between republicans and democrats? Doing so makes you either and idiot, a liar or both.
george love your work, but your writings make clear that there relly is one party, thenj you describe democrats, of which there are none except a small few
Was thinking the same thing, absolutely NO difference in the two parties. George is an idiot on this one.
Don't listen to what they say, look how they vote at the end of the day. Lock step with the White House agendas. BOTH parties.
Two wing's of the same bird.
There is one ruling party, represented by elephant & jackass sock puppets, and it is way out left to the totalitarian (100% gubmint) end of the political spectrum. The same global power elite have their hands in both puppets.
Any vote for the ruling party is a wasted suckers' vote. Fortunately they are confident in Stalin's belief that, "Those who count the votes decide everything."
Time for every citizen to revolt every day in every way. Got rope?
and you're surprised. The left has always played this card no matter the country. History tells us the socialists and communists come from the left. Go figure they would support this type of censorship.
Our Legislative Branch in the US Sucks Shit! They don't want us talking about it anymore. Simple really.
Just why is it, that in the final analysis, that an activist government always requires the citizen to pay the PIPA as a result of its activism?
Hacker group Anonymous engaged in revenge attacks:
http://blogs.ft.com/fttechhub/2012/01/anonymous-megaupload-ddos/#axzz1jz...
It's my understanding that they also plan to target campaign donation sites of politicians found supporting SOPA.
Fifth Columnist par excellence LIEberman is probably the most despicable individual in public life. And - given the cornucopia of graft, selling-out, deceit, corruption, bare-faced lying, skimming, double-dealing & sleaze in Congress - that's really saying something.
This insufferable, pencil-necked, whining, whinging creep, when he's not busy trying to kick-start WW3 with his santimonious bile - ending your future once and for all - is busy on the home-front undermining the last vestiges of freedom you thought you had.
For, make no mistake, according to the Book of Lieberman, YOU are also the enemy.
Who, exactly, is this scum-bag working for?
Who, exactly, is this scum-bag working for?
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he is a US citizen and thatis enough. No needs forpayroll...
What do you expect from a party completely and totally dominated by parasites and their lackeys? Lawyers dominate that party and lawyers are, per definition, parasites in the system. Democrats as the party of the little guy, standing for economic justice? Hah! Hasn't been true since...pretty much forever. It's what that party would like you to believe, it's their public mythology...
Of course they support SOPA/PIPA and its like: it gives them ability to sue more and more people. That's all they're really interested in. These folks want to do away with any sort of fair use: quote a line from a book online and they'll want royalties from you based on the number of readers you have. They don't even have to take you to court: it's usually cheaper to pay up without incurring legal costs.
It's all about bleeding the public to the greatest benefit of the few. Classic Democratic Party policy.
Yeah its all the dems fault...................................................
Whatever happened to those free speeech zones where bush's boys chose who could protest and who couldnt, why isnt obama using them to get rid of the tea party, he still has all of bush's authority and he hasn't used half of it yet, my guess is he's waiting for the next rightwing nutjob to start killing people, then he can really clamp down on the crazy militia types. (y'know all those army rejects who buy a simple tool and think it magically makes them into a man, the emasculated guys with god, guns and gesus on their side)
Exactly which political think tank funds this site?
You should charge them double rate GW, its your own soul you're sellin em.
The idea that there is any difference between Republicans and Democrats is an illusion. Every politician is for sale - there are no more statesmen looking to better this country....just everyone out for themselves. Might as well just allow politicians to put their votes on ebay for the highest bidder and be done with it.
dems=nanny state
Lincoln was our first great dictator. Wilson was our second. FDR was our third. The Bush boys were wannabes. Obama, well if Cris Rock's promise of gangsta s**t in the second term is correct, he might get in the running for forth. That is assuming he gets a second term and assuming he comes in off the golf course.
No Linclon was a one term congressman reject who went back home to ponder on a life of failures.
He became president only to attempt to preserve the Union which was then breaking up.
He has been shot at a few times in the war and finally effed by a ball in the head.
His body currently lies crushed under 1900's era cement of a few tons.
Preserving the Union had ZERO support from the Constitution or international law. The fact is, he despoiled the Constitution to create a tyrannical state, killing more Americans than ANYONE. Having been shot in the head was a justified killing.
Unfortunately, we suffer tyrants now...
reps=dominatrix state
For Non-Americans who see their Citizens arrested and deported to US courts on the say-so of nothing more than a District Judge for supposedly hosting file downloads makes it seem that US Anti-Terrorist Policies apply to any supposed threat to Hollywood business interests. I bet they won't be making many Big Bad Government Movies about this kind of persecution of minorities ? The extradition of British Citizens to the US with none of the protections for due-process that Americans facing extradition have shows just how craven Blair was in his yearning for sponsorship from rich US "philanthropists" that he - lawyer that he is - could sell his only populace into servitude. Why has the US Justice Department never put a Wall Street banker on trial under Obama......in the 1980s they went on trial
Even though he is no longer a US Senator {thank God}, Chris Dodd, former Conneticutt democrat is now a lobbyist for the motion picture industry, and is on the hill daily prostituting himself {just like old times!} on behalf of the bill.
Shame! Left leaning statists are so much worse than right leaning statists.
The left has a higher body count.
...Lieberman, ...hmm? must be Israeli for ''Mole''. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Yly-Lz_5I
...yes! That's it, L I E (LIE) B E (BE) R (OUR) M A N (MAN)
...somehow this story fits well here too http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Washington-Monument-Donor-Explains-Why-He-Gave-75-Million-Gift-137675643.html
lol...
For those politicians, only money counts.
Wipe liberty from the earth, and a crotch scan for your protection.
Vote MF Lieberman.
Welcome to the ballgame GW. Joe Biden has been the Follywood anti-piracy whore for some time now.
http://www.techlawjournal.com/topstories/2010/20100622.asp
C.D.F. Californians don't forget.
Boxer and Feinstein -- we'll vote against them, make sure they lose their cozy
greenback-lined seats.
Good luck. People in CA have no f**king clue. Moon Beam, Boxer, Feinstein, Waxman, Gray Davis, Harman, Lantos and the list of scum is endless.
I was a longtime CA resident and truer words could not be said. Reading the comments in the LA Times can leave a reasonable person in awe of the magnitude of their stupidity. The Terminator should be at the top of the list.
Surely Silicon valley can out bid Hollywoods tired old ass.
What an effed up way to run a country, How many lobbyists does it take to stretch a piano wire?
F Hollywood and F All of TV. Silly-Con Valley is not much better. These f**ks are all evil.
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The election of Ron Paul will usher in the largest culture war this nation has ever seen.
His Christian Reconstructionist nutball followers wiill make a power grab on the state level. They are his core, long-time supporters. Perhaps you should all get to know your candidate better.
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Though his campaign website scrubbed the endorsement, screenshots and text are archived.
I guess it was just too embarassing...or maybe they don't want the public to know what a true religious extremist he is.
http://www.ronpaul2012.com/2011/12/27/ron-paul-endorsed-by-eminent-pasto...
Hmmm...death penalty for adultery...which means sex outside of marriage for these idiots. That means about 95% of ZH will find itself on Death Row. Oh, and there's an Old Testament death penalty for "spilling seed" which should take care of most of the remaining 5%.
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