Not dead just playing possum

 

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You are talking about a national as a whole that focuses on things that could hardly ever change. Taking guns away, abortion... things that people base their votes on that even the President can't completely do away with nor completely let the flood gates open. We really are a collection of simpletons here.

Not dead, only delayed.

 

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The current problem at hand is keeping the public interested in the affairs of Technology regulation. The general populace has such a short lifespan on important matters that it it won't surprise me if they forget about the supporters of this legislation in November and vote them in again.


And from what I understand, Lamar Smith is in an old, rich, white gerrymandered district north of San Antonio so he is practically immune to getting ousted.

 

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Ideally they wouldn't have let themselves be whored out and lobbied to pass this right-depriving special interest bill in the first place. They will be again, in a few months, or a year, or a few years. You'd hope they would remember what happened this time around, but they won't due to campaign funds and lobbyists. This is just another round of the fight, and honestly that fight should have been brought years ago to the DMCA due to vague terminology.

I have two hopes now, one desperate in nature and one up to the whims of the whimsical masses. The more realistic one is that the fight against copyright oppression continues by the masses. The other is that the masses extend their vision of rights and liberty outside of cyberspace and into the real world towards bills like the Patriot Act, or the current practices of presidential administrations such as going to to war without the permission of congress on behalf of the people.

Given the average person's hopes, actions, and personal troubles, I will settle for a free internet. At least with a free internet there is safety net, a medium of free speech and organization through which anyone and everyone no matter their perceived limitations or financial means may communicate, educate, organize, and speak to any ends which they peacefully seek. This by far is the most powerful tool to ensure liberty survives. Communication, free uncensored communication, is a must. If the masses become so used to it that they cannot conceive a life without it... good.

 

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