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SOPA/PIPA, Net Neutrality and the Good Guys and Bad Guys Against Both

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) (and its Senate alternative, the Protect Intellectual Property Act [PIPA]) have been taking a bipartisan beating.  Conservatives have joined with Leftists to savage the bill and thus its chances for passage.

I too am opposed to this iteration of SOPA – it remains too overly broad.
But something similar and more finely, sharply crafted – must become law.  And conservatives will need to reorient themselves when a better version of the bill comes along – and support it.
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We cannot look at the SOPA debate without putting it into the broader context…

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New Year’s Resolution: Prevent the UN from Voting Itself Our Internet Overlord

The Barack Obama Administration has, since its inception, been moving the United States dramatically leftward, trying to (at the very least) make us a western European socialist entity. Ideologically, a full-on participant in – rather than a rational outlier of – the patently absurd United Nations (UN).

Perhaps the greatest – and worst – example of President Obama’s UN-ing of America was his Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s December 2010 illegal Network Neutrality Internet power grab.
The Administration going to these unlawful lengths to commandeer control of the ‘Net makes it a little more difficult to persuade international

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Big Government Will Cut Off All TV and Radio Broadcasts on Nov. 9

Yes, it’s true, The big, bloated tyrannical federal government will temporarily cut off all communication on the 9th. It’s supposed to be a test, they want to make sure they have the tools in place for complete control of every broadcast outlet in the country. Somebody wanna tell me why? The government doesn’t need, or have the right to control broadcasting of everything. Somehow I believe our founders are rolling over in their graves. Does 1984 ring a bell?

The people who suffer from the mental illness called denial will claim it’s no big deal, the government isn’t going to shut down communications and it’s merely a public safety issue. Well, those people who ignore the facts, and the facts being that “public safety,” or any other “Public-fill-in-the-blank” are always the excuses of tyrants. Always, 100% of the time, no exceptions. Maybe not now, but sometime. Mark my words. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. It’s only a matter of time.

via The Blaze:

Only the President has the authority to activate EAS at the national level, and he has delegated that authority to the Director of FEMA.  The test will be conducted jointly by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through  FEMA, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS).

In essence, the authority to seize control of all television and civilian communication has been asserted by the executive branch and handed to a government agency.

I don’t like this, I don’t like this at all. The government has become and is becoming way, way too powerful, and throughout history, that has never been good news.