In a surprise move today, Representative Eric Cantor(R-VA) announced that he will stop all action on SOPA, effectively killing the bill. This move was most likely due to several things. One of those things is that SOPA and PIPA met huge online protest against the bills.
The online protests about the bill were surprising and large. They ranged anywhere from callng Representatives, companies, and senators to get them to change their mind, to actively moving domain's away from and targeting the business model of the companies that supported/lobbied for the bill.
Color me skeptical. Someone else will come up, they'll bury small snippets of SOPA and PIPA into other bills, they'll adjust the language, spread out the bits and parts... they'll get what they want. Or bottom line... they will just do it behind our back.
This is what puzzles me the most about you - you get that a single representative will not be able to buck the system, or even that the reps as a whole are unwilling and/or unable to change the status quo of the system as it now operates, yet you refuse to support the OWS movement which is trying to fix the inherent corruption so that this is less of an issue. Very perplexing.
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Perplexing? It's perplexing to me that you would stand behind such a rat-tag worthless bunch of humanity. I'm sorry SC... I was down in the streets with these people in San Francisco. It was like being at a field hospital of a mental institution. You're confusing grass-roots with grass-smokers. You're confusing political action with public-lawlessness. You're confusing people looking for a handhold with people looking for a handout. This kind of Hollywood anarchy looks folksy on the evening news or You Tube videos, but the occupy people I met and talked to couldn't hold a civil or intelligent conversation with a log. These folks have about as much direction and influence on the process as the Children's Crusades did... sincere but destined to drown.
