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Where is google/facebook in all of this? They are the dictators of the internet. Why aren't they educating the crap out of our representatives?
by zackzackzack 15y ago
Where is google/facebook in all of this? They are the dictators of the internet. Why aren't they educating the crap out of our representatives?
- JamisonM 15y agoI think technology companies are sort of notorious for not being very good at the lobbying game. MS just started getting serious about it in the late '90s (and I think they have no dog in this particular fight) so we should expect Google to start figuring it out in a few years and Facebook later still. (MS's PAC was funded to the tune of $16,000 in 1995, 100x that 5 years later.)
- zackzackzack 15y agoHope five years from now is not too late.
- forensic 15y agoGoogle opposes SOPA. Facebook opposed it, but then supported it when a clause was added that protects Facebook. Truth be told, SOPA is actually beneficial for the big players, it actually gives the big players a competitive advantage. No court or congress is going to harm the Facebook.com DNS -- that's political suicide. But the public is not going to care/notice if Facebook-Competitor.com gets shut down. These laws will be used to crush sapling startups, which actually just eliminates the competition for Facebook/YouTube. It's Congress's way of saying: you can have YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. This is all the social media anyone should ever need. Anyone who wants more social media options than the Big3 is obviously some kind of criminal. SOPA essentially freezes the social media internet as it is and makes new social media companies impossible. It also makes borderline-popular social media companies like reddit unlikely to survive. Reddit is too free speech tolerating to survive this legislation. Facebook is borderline, but they're untouchable. YouTube is in violation. Twitter is shallow enough to be safe.