It seems like this bill has zero true support from leftists, rightists, libertarians, modern liberlas, paleo conservatives/stuanch conservatives, progressives, from absolutely noone. And if that is the case, whose trying to push this bill through and does it have any chance of getting past Congress, Obama and the Supreme Court ? Not that we can at all count on the latter two doing the right thing of course .
Here’s the full list of the current co-sponsors for SOPA. If any of their opponents in next year’s election are paying attention, they should be using this as a key issue and reaching out to the internet community, ASAP. What happened to GoDaddy can happen to a politician in an instant:
Mark Amodei [NV2]
Joe Baca [CA43]
John Barrow [GA12]
Karen Bass [CA33]
Howard Berman [CA28]
Marsha Blackburn [TN7]
Mary Bono Mack [CA45]
John Carter [TX31]
Steven Chabot [OH1]
Judy Chu [CA32]
John Conyers [MI14]
Jim Cooper [TN5]
Ted Deutch [FL19]
Elton Gallegly [CA24]
Robert Goodlatte [VA6]
Tim Griffin [AR2]
Tim Holden [PA17]
Peter King [NY3]
John Larson [CT1]
Ben Lujan [NM3]
Thomas Marino [PA10]
Alan Nunnelee [MS1]
William Owens [NY23]
Ben Quayle [AZ3]
Dennis Ross [FL12]
Steve Scalise [LA1]
Adam Schiff [CA29]
Brad Sherman [CA27]
Lee Terry [NE2]
Debbie Wasserman Schultz [FL20]
Melvin Watt [NC12]
And here’s the list of Senators who are both supporters of PIPA and are up for re-election in 2012. Wikipedia lists who’s already registered to challenge them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2012
Ben Cardin [Maryland]
Bob Casey [Pennsylvania]
Bob Corker [Tennessee]
Dianne Feinstein [California]
Kristen Gillibrand [New York]
Orrin Hatch [Utah]
Amy Klobuchar [Minnesota]
Bob Menendez [New Jersey]
Bill Nelson [Florida]
Sheldon Whitehouse [Rhode Island]
Hollywood is paying for the whole thing ~ they’ve got a lot of money, and from their perspective destroying free form discussion on the internet will simply open up new opportunities for folks to watch their movies.