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Hi, John, et al.: <br>
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It is in the best short term interest of the venal 1% to
claim that repealing corporate personhood would hurt small
business. I don't know if that is what is happening, but I would
expect that Citizens United and similar organizations would be
paying people to write messages on Facebook with claims like, ""SOPA
would deprive small businesses (ie web sites) of their property
(their domain names and access to their sites) without due
process". Big money in politics today is often spent (a) doing
focus groups to find out what kinds of arguments against it resonate
with people, (b) following that with sample surveys to pick the
strongest of several likely candidates, then (c) circulating that
message in a variety of ways, often concealing the source. <br>
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The concerns about SOPA and NDAA are real, but I the primary
impact on small business I see from repeal of corporate personhood
is that it would deprive the 1% of certain tools they now use to
increase their wealth and power at the expense of small businesses.
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(more on your Facebook page citing research that social
mobility is lower in the US, where the power of corporations has
grown substantially over the past 125 years, than in much of Europe,
which reportedly does not have corporate personhood.) <br>
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<br>
Spencer Graves<br>
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On 1/3/2012 8:44 AM, John Thielking wrote:
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two community pages on Facebook which may be of interest
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prime example of the contradictions within the movement
and the need to think over carefully the MTA Section 1
is the case of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). SOPA
would deprive small businesses (ie web sites) of their
property (their domain names and access to their sites)
without due process (big businesses could merely
petition a judge claiming violations of copyright and
the sites would be <span style="RIGHT: auto"
class="text_exposed_show">shut down for a minimum of 5
days before a hearing could be held to present
evidence). Some in the Occupy movement are busy
protesting this unconstitutional move by Congress,
while at the same time pushing for passage of MTA
Section 1 which would make their claims of
unconstitutionality of SOPA moot. So which is it? Do
you support rights for small businesses or don't you?</span></font></h6>
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Spencer Graves, PE, PhD
President and Chief Technology Officer
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