Tech Industry Reps To Speak Before Congress About SOPA

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @04:29AM from the in-today's-sopa-news dept.

Nemesisghost writes "Rep. Darrell Issa (R-California), a major opponent of the Stop Online Piracy Act has announced he plans to call a hearing where Tech industry representatives will get to speak out about how legislation like SOPA will negatively affect the internet. From the article 'Representative Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has called a hearing that will bring more voices from the technology industry to Washington, D.C. to discuss how legislation such as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) would affect the Internet. On Jan. 18, industry representatives that include Brad Burnham from Union Square Ventures; Lanham Napier, the CEO of Rackspace Hosting; and Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit.com, will testify before Congress.'"

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This should be fun... by I'm+just+joshin · 2012-01-10 04:33 · Score: 5, Funny

So do we like Issa today or is he still evil?
Re:I applaud his efforts... by DNS-and-BIND · 2012-01-10 05:01 · Score: 2, Funny

So, why don't the good guys raise some cash and start bribing politicians? This sort of thing goes both ways, you know. Evil is bribing Neutral...surely Neutral, being neutral, is equally amenable to Good's money as well? At the very least it drives the price up for Evil.

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