This proposed law REALLY goes over the line and needs to be severely trounced! BUT..ask yourself this...why does Congress keep passing laws like the DMCA? Answer: because they can get away with it! Because so few actually KNOW what's really going on in D.C.! It's fine and dandy to post here and bitch about how awful things are becoming here in the Corporate States of Greed and it's great that you may actually write your representative (who could frankly give a rats ass about you; he's there to serve the people who line his pockets).
So, you say..what can I/we do?
O R G A N I Z E!!
One letter won't affect your congressman..he'll reply with a form letter if he gets 100 letters.. BUT..if he gets 10,000 or 100,000 or a million letters, well that's quite different!
How can this happen?
Easy..we have to go to the average Joe and let him know how these laws will affect HIM. Otherwise, the only ones who know (and care) are geeks like you and I. This involves the MAINSTREAM MEDIA. As much as I can't stand the dolt, look at how Rush Limbaugh does it. He 'spins' everything to be his way! Christ, yesterday he blamed the lawsuit against Microsoft for our (present) bad economy! Plus, he slammed Janet Reno and her staff for WINNING! But I digress..
My point is that he has hundreds of thousands of active people listening and hanging on to his every word. How? Simple! As the Corporate thug said in the movie Network: "you're on TV dummy!"
If you really want to change this law and the DMCA and the RIAA and everything else you have to be on TV or the radio. Period. This is what we MUST do! Frankly, I work in radio and I can tell you that it's not nearly as hard as it seems.
It just takes a few bucks and some sweat!
So, the way I see it is that we have two choices here. We can sit at our computers type our bitches to the choir, or we can take our battle to the airwaves. I'm willing to do whatever is needed from me to do this...
What about the rest of you?
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This proposed law REALLY goes over the line and needs to be severely trounced! BUT..ask yourself this...why does Congress keep passing laws like the DMCA? Answer: because they can get away with it! Because so few actually KNOW what's really going on in D.C.! It's fine and dandy to post here and bitch about how awful things are becoming here in the Corporate States of Greed and it's great that you may actually write your representative (who could frankly give a rats ass about you; he's there to serve the people who line his pockets). So, you say..what can I/we do? O R G A N I Z E!! One letter won't affect your congressman..he'll reply with a form letter if he gets 100 letters.. BUT..if he gets 10,000 or 100,000 or a million letters, well that's quite different! How can this happen? Easy..we have to go to the average Joe and let him know how these laws will affect HIM. Otherwise, the only ones who know (and care) are geeks like you and I. This involves the MAINSTREAM MEDIA. As much as I can't stand the dolt, look at how Rush Limbaugh does it. He 'spins' everything to be his way! Christ, yesterday he blamed the lawsuit against Microsoft for our (present) bad economy! Plus, he slammed Janet Reno and her staff for WINNING! But I digress.. My point is that he has hundreds of thousands of active people listening and hanging on to his every word. How? Simple! As the Corporate thug said in the movie Network: "you're on TV dummy!" If you really want to change this law and the DMCA and the RIAA and everything else you have to be on TV or the radio. Period. This is what we MUST do! Frankly, I work in radio and I can tell you that it's not nearly as hard as it seems. It just takes a few bucks and some sweat! So, the way I see it is that we have two choices here. We can sit at our computers type our bitches to the choir, or we can take our battle to the airwaves. I'm willing to do whatever is needed from me to do this... What about the rest of you?