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Good men had to die to give us due process; yet our government can now officially assassinate citizens without trial. Good men had to die to firmly establish h
by mapgrep 15y ago
Good men had to die to give us due process; yet our government can now officially assassinate citizens without trial.
Good men had to die to firmly establish habeas corpus; yet today our government detains people indefinitely without trial.
Good men had to die to ban unlawful search and seizure; that right lies in ruins amid warrantless phone wiretaps and a farcical law that says email left on a server for more than 60 days is abandoned property.
SOPA is terrible and the right of startups to avoid prosecution for user piracy is important — but for you to invoke the death of American soldiers across countless wars in support of this relatively narrow cause, when there is so much other injustice going on, greatly undermines your point. A little perspective goes a long way.
- samstave 15y agoI think you're missing the fact that SOPA can be easily abused to shut down sites like wikileaks, or sites which would otherwise be documenting and broadcasting the injustices carried out by your first three points. The government could kill, detain and illegally raid citizens who oppose them - and with SOPA, the internet will be censored such that people will be in the dark on these issues.
- guns 15y agoI think you're being facetious in turn by summarizing SOPA as the revocation of "the right of startups to avoid prosecution for user piracy". SOPA is dangerous because it gives the executive wide power to deprive private citizens of their property, without any due process, in direct violation of the Fifth Amendment.