[KJC1]

I guess I don’t understand what is wrong with what he said. Of course there have to be limits: committing crimes over the Internet, sending threats, etc.

I don’t think Santorum wants to limit free speech, rather he’s probably taking the above into account.

Having said the above, there might be language buried in the proposals that might be troubling...don’t know.

[achilles2000]

You can find out what is wrong with the bill with a simple search. Santorum is a big government “conservative”, like the Bushes. I’ll vote for him if I have to because of he position on life, but if it weren’t for that he would just be another Romney.

[livius]

There are already limitations on committing crimes, terrorism, fraud, making threats, etc. over the Internet. You can actually go to jail right now for Internet stalking. In fact, there are already laws against piracy (stealing intellectual property).

There is no need for this law and it can only harm the free exchange of information.

[itsahoot]

I guess I don’t understand what is wrong with what he said.

Rights are not unlimited, I guess that would include the right to life hmnnnn.

[af_vet_rr]

I guess I don’t understand what is wrong with what he said. Of course there have to be limits: committing crimes over the Internet, sending threats, etc.

I don’t think Santorum wants to limit free speech, rather he’s probably taking the above into account.

Having said the above, there might be language buried in the proposals that might be troubling...don’t know.

There are already laws against software and music and movie piracy, but SOPA is not about piracy, it's about controlling what you do or say on the internet. It has fancy language designed to make it look like it's just about piracy, but it also has deliberately vague language that makes it all to easy to shut down websites.

It would take minutes to get a site like Free Republic shut down, and Jim Robinson would have an incredibly hard and probably expensive time in getting it back online, since he would have to appeal to multiple authorities, all of whom might turn him down or ignore him.