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Originally Posted by chasinthesun
Here we go ,people started hearing the truth about what kind of govt really runs this country ,best thing they could come up with is to censor the messenger before all hell breaks lose.I wonder how much Hollywood money seeded this Bill .
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LOTS of money. Our former senator (and the other half of the Kennedy-Dodd "sandwich"), Chris Dodd, now heads the Motion Picture Association of America and a big supporter of SOPA.
Irony Alert
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But Dodd called the blackout a "dangerous gimmick."
"It is an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely on them for information and who use their services,'' Dodd said in a statement. "It is also an abuse of power given the freedoms these companies enjoy in the marketplace today."
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Our current Rep. John Larson is a SOPA co-sponsor, has issues with it the way it is written but is still pushing it while claiming changes will be made to address the concerns rather than scrapping it and starting over.
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"Let me be clear: I am not for censoring the Internet, and changes to the bill are already being made to help address those concerns. As a user of Pandora and iTunes, I know we can work together to find a compromise that will protect U.S. companies and jobs from piracy while still ensuring full, robust, unbridled access to the Internet," Larson said.
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Larson is a close friend and political ally of Dodd's but, like the other members of the Connecticut delegation, he said he has not spoken to Dodd on this issue. Dodd, who left office last January, is prohibited by law from lobbying his former Senate colleagues for at least two years after leaving the chamber; the cooling-off period for lobbying House members is one year.
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Wink-wink. Nudge-nudge.