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If this fails, will the digital community start taking the corruption of lobbyists more seriously? If we could turn the anti-SOPA campaign into something like
by bsimpson 14y ago
If this fails, will the digital community start taking the corruption of lobbyists more seriously? If we could turn the anti-SOPA campaign into something like rootstrikers.org's campaign to decouple large donations from politics, we might be able to nullify the voices that make common-sense laws so unlikely to pass.
- DannyBee 14y agoIt doesn't require corruption of lobbyists for this to fail. What makes you assume it was actually intended to go anywhere? AFAIK, there is a huge influx of bills introduced right before most recesses (or other related times), most offered with no intention of going anywhere, and they don't even follow up on them. They are done so the congressperson who introduced it can go back home and tell folks "that's why I just introduced a bill in congress to do X". It sounds impressive, but it's completely meaningless. I'm not suggesting this is what is happening here, but i'm just pointing out that corruption is not always related to "good" bills failing. It may be have been introduced just to start a discussion, and make clear how much support there is, to test the waters of the committees, or a million other non-lobbyist reasons that would mean it will never go anywhere.