We try to avoid the political on this site, limiting our partisanship to our role as fans of the St. Louis Rams. However, we're now dealing with a matter of politics that threatens our communities and, of particular interest to me, our livelihood.
The SOPA legislation is intended to stop digital piracy. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. I see content from this site cut and pasted word for word on shady websites whose sole reason for existence is gaming Google Adwords. Piracy hurts the artists we enjoy, artists we want to support so that they can continue making records, movies, etc.
But there has to be a more sensible. less heavy-handed way than pulling a page out of the Gitmo Decade and threatening communities like ours.
The tech guys over at The Verge, SBNation's sister company under the Vox Media banner, have a much more in-depth argument laid out against this legislation, legislation that threatens to unconstitutional seizure of private property, something all of us, left and right, can agree is wrong.
Go read it. Then go take action right here.
Alright, back to regularly scheduled programming.
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TST puts the SOPA
in sopapilla! And yes, SOPA and PIPA are fucking jokes. Let’s all just agree that everyone in charge are idiots and to just leave the internet to smarter people than they. Yay Amurrca!
3k - January 18, 2012
But please remember to contact congress.
We won’t get the internet to the hands of smarter people if they pass stuff like this.
And remember. Phone calls and snail mail are the most effective means of contact. Email can come from anywhere, a postmark or area code on a caller ID let them know you are a constituent.
Danrarbc - January 18, 2012
Agreed
Time for everyone in charge to go. Along with all the lobbyists funding SOPA/PIPA. Washington is a cluster f*ck!
At least the Rams are looking up! :)
KSRamFan - January 18, 2012
You and me are gonna have a problem you rip off KSR
King Sam Rules! - January 18, 2012 via mobile
Ohhh
Took me a minute to figure out what you meant. No worries I have two logins I didn’t even realize I was logged into this one. I don’t like this screen name much so I created a new one. My browser just keeps wanting me to log in under this name. The screen name I am using now is KeSt.
KSRamFan - January 18, 2012
See
You can be the only KSR. :P
KeSt - January 18, 2012
Ok, good
Glad we handled that, haha
King Sam Rules! - January 18, 2012 via mobile
Crisis averted
KeSt - January 18, 2012
I could always just ban King Sam Rules
that’d fix the problem too
just kidding…
Eric Nagel - January 18, 2012
It looks like the law is so broad that even posting pics may cause a problem...No more Kate?
Douglas M - January 18, 2012
NOW THEYVE GONE TOO FAR!
RG31 - January 18, 2012 via mobile
KILL THEM ALL
King Sam Rules! - January 18, 2012 via mobile
Why not
Join the blackout that Wikipedia and other sites have instituted for this one day? Sure it’s merely symbolic but it drives home the point that politicians could take your favorite site out anytime they wanted to because of legislation like SOPA/PIPA.
CumberlandRam - January 18, 2012
kudos Van
Terrible bill that must be stopped.
jroman - January 18, 2012
Vox Media
is owned by Comcast, Allen & Company – whose CEO sits on the board of Coca-Cola – and Vinod Khosla, one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems, a big-time contributor to Wikipedia, and the self-appointed Guru of Clean Tech. Not that there’s anything wrong with that!
No offense, but anything those hypocrites/nutters Nancy Pelosi and Ron Paul are for, I’m against.
benjamin63_99 - January 18, 2012
Kudos for taking a stand on this issue.
And thank you for the link. More information is always preferred over less.
NorthLeft12 - January 18, 2012
SOPA- Big Brother is growing at a rapid pace.
If you like your rights and freedoms, something has to be done now! Do as Bibber says and send out letters to OUR representatives immediately. Our government has lost all fear of “We The People” and it shows. Since it is very relevant to this subject matter, presidential primaries are coming up in your state. Get out and vote for the only man who has an unwavering plan to return our freedoms and get us out of this mess. Ron Paul is that man.
Everett 11 - January 18, 2012
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