RIAA CEO Hopes SOPA Protests Were a "One-Time Thing"

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 1, 2012 @10:45AM from the wishful-thinking dept.

hapworth writes "After posting a controversial op-ed in The New York Times saying Wikipedia and Google 'misinformed' the public about SOPA and PIPA, Cary Sherman, CEO of the RIAA said in an interview yesterday that he hopes the SOPA protests were a 'one-time experience.' He also said that Wikipedia and Google users were duped into thinking SOPA was a bad bill because they assume "if it comes from these sources, it must be true." In another hilarious comment, Sherman blames the Internet for making it impossible for Congress to get out its side of the story, and for not spreading information with the same 'clarity and integrity' of broadcast journalists."

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Re:One time experience? by Culture20 · 2012-03-01 16:33 · Score: 1, Offtopic

It beats fighting for the freedom to speak by forcefully shutting down someone else's ability to live, like our founding fathers did.
The symantics behind this are a little off... we fought with soldiers against soldiers... we did not destroy England to do so.
England had no power to make us do anything except via their soldiers. The revolutionary minutemen forcefully shut down the redcoats' abilities to live. It wasn't some DDoS of inconvenience.