<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">If <VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>you have any doubts about big businesses' desires to run small businesses out of town, this should erase them. See below:<BR style="RIGHT: auto" class=yui-cursor></SPAN></div>
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<div>Amazing! On the eve of the House Judiciary Committee vote, the head of the Motion Picture Assocation of America admitted that he's pushing a censorship regime just like China's. According to Variety, he said:</div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><EM style="RIGHT: auto"> "When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites."</EM></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><A style="RIGHT: auto" href="http://act.demandprogress.org/go/374?akid=1077.298162.jYxTJx&t=5" rel=nofollow target=_blank><STRONG style="RIGHT: auto"><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" color=#234786>Please urge your lawmakers to oppose Internet censorship -- the vote is coming up next week! </FONT></STRONG></A></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">The Stop Online Piracy Act would require sites to censor their users' posts (or shut down), let the government block your access to websites, and put people in jail for uploading unlicensed content (ie, cover band performances).</div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">The House Judiciary Committee is expected to vote NEXT WEEK. This isn't China -- it's America, where the First Amendment is supposed to rule the day.</div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><A style="RIGHT: auto" href="http://act.demandprogress.org/go/374?akid=1077.298162.jYxTJx&t=6" rel=nofollow target=_blank><STRONG style="RIGHT: auto"><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" color=#234786>Please click here to ask your lawmakers to oppose a China-like Internet regime in America.</FONT></STRONG></A></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">Thanks.<BR></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr readonly="true" contenteditable="false"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Spencer Graves <spencer.graves@prodsyse.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> John Thielking <pagesincolor@yahoo.com> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> "sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org" <sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, December 8, 2011 9:51 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [GPSCC-chat] Amendment Name/Feedback<BR></FONT><BR>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"> I'm with Drew on this: If this amendment passes, nothing will change immediately. They major corporations will still fight tooth and claw to minimize the impact of the changes. The difference is that rather than them working with our current reactionary courts to give them even more power over natural persons, they will be on the defensive. Even then, it could take massive amounts of money from private citizens to pay for the litigation required to enforce the changes. <BR><BR><BR> You are doubtless correct about one point in this, however, namely that the large corporations will eagerly use their powers to try to limit the power of small businesses while not limiting the large ones. With the wording of this amendment, it will be hard for them to find ways to do that, but they doubtless will try -- and the commercial media (especially
broadcasting) will support them at every turn. <BR><BR><BR> Best Wishes, <BR> Spencer <BR>p.s. A cousin is an engineer and a private pilot. He sometimes asks, "What makes an airplane fly?" Answer: Money. <BR><BR><BR>On 12/8/2011 9:42 PM, John Thielking wrote:
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">The only other option that I can see that won't result in a dark age (not counting the one we are already in) is to pass Section 2 and 3 first and then try for section 1 about 10 years later. No delay clauses required. Still required is a populace that won't just go back to sleep at the smell of the first victory.<BR> <BR>John Thielking</DIV>
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