SOPA Hearings Stacked In Favor of Pro-SOPA Lobby

Adrian Lopez writes "Techdirt reports that 'apparently, the folks behind SOPA are really scared to hear from the opposition. We all expected that the Judiciary Committee hearings wouldn't be a fair fight. In Congress, they rarely are fair fights. But most people expected the typical "three in favor, one against" weighted hearings. That's already childish, but it seems that the Judiciary Committee has decided to take the ridiculousness to new heights. We'd already mentioned last week that the Committee had rejected the request of NetCoalition to take part in the hearings. At the time, we'd heard that the hearings were going to be stacked four-to-one in favor of SOPA. However, the latest report coming out of the Committee is that they're so afraid to actually hear about the real opposition that they've lined up five pro-SOPA speakers and only one "against."' Demand Progress is running an online petition against such lopsided representation."

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Re:Congress, our representatives?

[CrimsonAvenger]

The truth is that gun rights have gotten a lot better in the last 3 years.

Just curious. How much of that improvement has happened because of Obama, and how much because of legal actions by the NRA?

Off the top of my head, I can't think of a single thing that Obama (or Congress) has done to improve gun rights recently.

Obama has bigger issues than guns, and he won't be taking them away during campaign time

Do remember that campaign time ends for Obama the day after the next election, whether he wins or loses....