EA, Nintendo, Sony Quietly Withdraw SOPA Support

wbr1 writes "Electronista reports that Sony, Nintendo, and Electronic Arts have all pulled their support for SOPA, but have not issued any statements as to why. The house.gov list of SOPA supporters is here."

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Concerned Women for America (CWA)

[tpotus]

That's just about the ass-hattiest name I've ever heard. Was half expecting to see the yes men mentioned in the wikipedia article, but they seem to be for real. Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction.

Re:Anonymous Jigaboos

[Anonymous Coward]

spot on!

Our turn

[bfandreas]

We pay your welfare, we pay your taxes, we protect your guts, we drive your cabs, we program your iDevices, we prepare our food, we build your homes, we create your creature comforts
We don't buy into your BS. We didn't sign up with you.
We are pushing our 40ies. We read the classics. We have come into our own.
Watch it! Hear us roar!
The hammer fell and the anvil rang. Our turn.

Historical Economic and Social Manipulation

[Niscenus]

Racism shouldn't be wearing thin unless you failed history class. All groups coming out of a state of unclassed citizenry had a long time of second-class citizenry that followed.

If you want to see a parallel with Jews, that would be a quick and easy comparison we could otherwise review at length. Under the rule of Islam nearly a millenium and on half ago, most Jews were actually banned from Jerusalem. Side note, during this time, the city, being the site of Mohammed's ascension, was the location that the Islamic Caliphate instructed to which all worship/prayer should be directed, and not Mecca. After they were allowed back into their city in general, they had brief relief under the peaceful and open terms of the Constitution of Medina, which was neither funky or cold.

However, the preceding 200 years of Christian abuses under Byzantium, like, the popularized sermon of "St." John Chrysostom's 'Against the Jews' and 'On the Statues, Homily 17', resulted in groups, like the Sunni, to adopt a very anti-Jewish stance (which may have been the source of the two very anti-Semitic statements in the Quran)*. They would be forced out of the region altogether, along with any non-Muslim groups. This wave would reverse and the pro-Constitution of Medina crowd would win out, heralding a Renaissance-like atmosphere of Jewish advancement...until about the start of the second millennium.

Anti-Semitism finally became a permanently integrated into Islamic practices and social culture. The Granada Pogrom would follow re-instituted segregation, kicking off a solidly anti-Semitic millennium. Being Jewish meant restrictions to food in droughts, water sources at all times, ownership of land, the ability to live or work an populous areas and an extra tax on all aspects of your life. Jewish access to education was limited to their own internal provisions, and during some periods, altogether.

As they were always a minority in just about every city and land, they could do nothing about it forcibly, and they were easily prevented from holding any office of value, and in some places, they would not be allowed to go by titles that may have been suggestive of an important position, which ended a brief period of using lingua franca for their titles, thus today, Rabbi is still more generally used than Teacher*. The extremes even included not being able to defend themselves if children up to the age of 15 and even 19 were to start throwing stones.

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And now, the condensed time frame of Aftrican Americans, because there is more than some merit for the comparison you chose*.

As we all know, approximately three minutes after the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, the slaves rose up, defeated the Confederacy, were given land, post-Confederate pension and free education.

This would later be mirrored by other decisions, like not outlawing cannabis when the only witness the Senate could produce clearly testified non-medical use was relatively harmless from an objective perspective. After all, it's not like the Senate would ignore the closest thing to an empirical study they could obtain, declare a cause of, "It's for the chilldren," all for the purpose of creating an excuse to put quotas on Mexican immigration.

WHOA! Sorry, neither of these happened that way. Crap, now I'll have to burn all of my, what did those stinking Mexicans call it? "Marijuana?" That DOES sound more dangerous than the cannabis Queen Victoria used to help with her menstrual cramps and headaches.

Believe it or not, the intent was to do nearly that, the Emancipation thing, not the weed thing. However, the Confederate soldiers kept their pensions, land was made available as part of the usual expansionist grants, and education was whatever poorer areas that the majority of the pseudo-post enslavement sub-culture could afford to live in*.

The Freemen were originally to have all the rights of citizen available to them; however, much of the post-Confederate former-Confederate citizens didn't fully a