{"id":13121,"date":"2012-01-18T10:07:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T15:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13121"},"modified":"2012-01-18T10:07:37","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T15:07:37","slug":"mother-jones-puts-on-the-rose-coloured-glasses-over-sopa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/mother-jones-puts-on-the-rose-coloured-glasses-over-sopa\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Mother Jones<\/em> puts on the rose-coloured glasses over SOPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an otherwise good summary of the SOPA\/PIPA issues in <em>Mother Jones<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/politics\/2012\/01\/how-sopa-protect-ip-and-big-content-lost\" target=\"_blank\">Siddhartha Mahanta and Nick Baumann<\/a> start the touchdown celebration prematurely:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Late Thursday, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the lead sponsor of the House bill, announced that he would consider dropping the DNS-blocking provisions from the bill. Late on Friday, Smith, SOPA&#8217;s sponsor, did Leahy one better, removing the provision altogether. Not long after, six Republican senators &mdash; including two co-sponsors &mdash; released a letter they wrote to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), asking him to hold off on a January 24th vote to end debate on PIPA and move to passage.<\/p>\n<p>By this weekend, the writing was on the wall. Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the House Majority Leader, announced that SOPA would not come for a vote in the House before the controversy over the bill is resolved &mdash; essentially killing it for the time being. The White House issued a statement opposing significant portions of the bills. And Issa cancelled the hearing planned for Wednesday, saying he&#8217;s &#8220;confident&#8221; the bill is dead in the House.<\/p>\n<p>Big Hollywood isn&#8217;t entirely beaten yet. PIPA, the Senate legislation, could still get a vote and move closer to becoming law, and a modified version of SOPA could conceivably come to the House floor at some point in the future. <em>Wikipedia<\/em>, <em>Reddit<\/em>, <em>MoveOn.org<\/em>, <em>Mozilla<\/em> (the maker of the Firefox web browser), the blogging platform <em>WordPress<\/em>, and others are still planning to go dark on Wednesday, just in case. But as of right now, a combination of grassroots activism, blogging, tweeting, boycotts, and the mere threat of having to scroll through 1500 LOLCats without <em>Icanhazcheezburger<\/em> (another boycott supporter), seems to have beaten an avalanche of money and lobbying. Those 1950s onion farmers would be proud.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Keep your powder dry, boys: the battle is far from won. This is just the latest skirmish in an ongoing campaign, and premature celebration of the victory is just what we don&#8217;t need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an otherwise good summary of the SOPA\/PIPA issues in Mother Jones, Siddhartha Mahanta and Nick Baumann start the touchdown celebration prematurely: Late Thursday, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the lead sponsor of the House bill, announced that he would consider dropping the DNS-blocking provisions from the bill. Late on Friday, Smith, SOPA&#8217;s sponsor, did Leahy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,28,53,13],"tags":[459,698,186,58,553],"class_list":["post-13121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-liberty","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-censorship","tag-congress","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-internet","tag-senate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3pD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13122,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13121\/revisions\/13122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}