SOPA Creator In TV/Film/Music Industry's Pocket

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 18, 2011 @06:37AM from the but-I-repeat-myself dept.

First time accepted submitter en4bz writes "Representative Lamar Smith, the creator of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), has been consistently receiving donations averaging $50 000 from the TV/Film/Music industry for each of his re-election campaigns for the past ten years. Smith has received roughly half a million dollars from the TV/Film/Music lobby over the past ten years according to opensecrets.org. Check out the source link for a full breakdown of donors to Smith's campaigns." Speaking of SOPA, new submitter DarkStar1O9 submits this "explanation in simple terms of why this dangerous new bill in congress could result in the extinction of sites that are based on user-generated content like YouTube, Reddit, and StumbleUpon." Update: 12/18 20:42 GMT by T : An anonymous reader writes "Eric S. Raymond weighs in on SOPA and the question of why so many people hate this bill and not the dozens of others just like it that get passed on a regular basis."

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Re:LOL by evilwoodchuck · 2011-12-18 07:16 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I voted for Ron Paul because some guy told me to do so in the comments section of a YouTube video where a group of monkeys danced to Michael Jackson's Thriller.
He'll protect the Internet and stuff. I particularly like how he fights for freedom, except if it involves abortion, separation of church and state, gay marriage, gay people in the military,
How would you like it if you were in the military and had to go through basic training, where the circumstances require you to shower in a room with up to 50 other guys showering in it... and they were allowed to be openly gay? It's inappropriate. It's not like we can separate them from us like they do with female groups (they have their own "flight" as we call it in the Air Force made up of all females). If we were to have a "homosexual flight", they would say that we were discriminating against them based on their sexual orientation - which would be true; do you have a better solution?
There shouldn't be any openly gay people in the military. Gays need to accept that the way they are is NOT the status quo, and they need to adapt to "normal" types of behavior and get out of this fantasy world they seem to think they live in.