House Kills SOPA

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Posted by samzenpus on Monday January 16, 2012 @03:00AM from the on-second-thought dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a surprise move, Representative Eric Cantor (R-VA) announced that he will stop all action on SOPA, effectively killing the bill. This move was most likely due to the huge online protest and the White House threatening to veto the bill if it had passed. But don't celebrate yet. PIPA (the Senate's version of SOPA) is still up for consideration."

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Holy crap by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-16 03:04 · Score: 5, Funny

Do you mean to tell me to tell me that in 2012 the government is actually listening to the will of the people? Man, the world really IS going to end!
1. Re:Holy crap by ae1294 · 2012-01-16 03:18 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I doubt our will has anything to do with it. They can always just tack on the junk that didn't go through this time on some spending bill for homeless shelters and kittens.
  But those kittens NEED copyright protection NOW!
Absolutely by Brain-Fu · 2012-01-16 03:08 · Score: 5, Funny

All these posts on Slashdot about how bad the bill is really made a difference!
Re:Sopa by Rik+Sweeney · 2012-01-16 03:20 · Score: 5, Funny

Sopa is a piece of shit!
Ha, I see what you did there:
SOPA reversed is APOS, which stands for A Piece Of Shit.
Clever, even if you didn't intend it to be.

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Re:Sopa by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-16 04:21 · Score: 5, Funny

SOPA reversed is APOS, which stands for A Piece Of Shit.

Even more clever, "Sopa" in Swedish means trash.

This is the story of two brand names for politicians. Republicans, and Democrats. These are the Republicans, and these are the Democrats.
In last week's episode, the Democratic President said he didn't want to sign it, but didn't want to veto it either, so he said he'd sign it with reservations, or with a sticky note saying he didn't like it but he'd sign it anyway. And the Republican guy who doesn't look like a turtle said he was going to stop all activity on the bill, effectively killing SOPA. Now it's the Senate's turn, with a Democrat from MPAA, and a Republican who looks like a turtle. Will they pass PIPA? Will it pass with a veto-proof majority? Does it have to get a veto-proof majority because the President never said anything about having problems with PIPA instead of SOPA? And aren't we all kinda surprised and relieved to find our elected representatives listening to us, even if only because it's an election year?
Confused yet? You won't be, after this week's episode of... Soap!
Re:Sopa by Nadaka · 2012-01-16 05:29 · Score: 5, Funny

So... the same as Spanish.
Slashdot: Serious Business by lolcutusofbong · 2012-01-16 06:06 · Score: 5, Funny

Come on now, Slashdot opinions barely percolate out to the rest of the technology-aware parts of the Internet. If anything it was Reddit and their "Operation Pull Ryan" that shook up the discussion. We're Protoss with no carriers. Reddit is Zerg.