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If SOPA were limited to indicted suspects who sold counterfeit, dangerous, prescription-required drugs, I'd support it wholeheartedly.
by efsavage 15y ago
If SOPA were limited to indicted suspects who sold counterfeit, dangerous, prescription-required drugs, I'd support it wholeheartedly.
- burke 15y agoThe sad thing is that even at that angle, their real motivation is to shut down foreign pharmacies selling generic drugs (often made on the same production line as their branded equivalent) directly to Americans without the price-gouge they're able to inflict with their market dominance.
- notatoad 15y agothis is exactly the sort of attitude that gets exploited to pass bad laws. A law restricting free speech or violating privacy should not be specific to any sort of behaviour, whether it's child porn or counterfeit drugs or pirated movies. producing or selling counterfeit drugs is already illegal. the importation of those drugs is also illegal, if somebody is importing them customs already has the legal authority to stop it. it might be difficult to enforce, but that doesn't mean that more laws are the answer. passing more laws isn't going to make it more illegal, those laws are just going to be abused to infringe upon the rights of people who aren't actually producing or selling counterfeit drugs.
- smsm42 15y agoIf freedom limitations applied only to people that I consider to be bad, and that authorities agree with me, I'd support it wholeheartedly. After all, bad people don't need same rights to due process as good people, and since I'm one of the good people, it could never happen that my rights would be infringed because somebody thought I'm bad and authorities sided with him and not me. Sounds about right.