I guess the question that gets immediately raised in my mind is: what the heck were these companies doing supporting the damned thing in the first place?
It's like the rats scattering when the light turns on. Is all of corporate America happy to support these egregious pieces of legislation as long as the public doesn't find out?
As I've said elsewhere, conservation of incompetence seems the likeliest explanation. The companies have better things to do, so no one in charge realizes that they're dues paying members of an organization that's advancing a truly moronic cause.
Until the press gets involved, then things get escalated and straightened back out.
Assuming that's in the neighborhood of truth, it highlights the importance of a press free from government and corporate interference.
SOPA is pretty egregious, and it looks like it could get everyone in a lot of trouble given the way someone can merely allege copyright infringement and get a site blacklisted.
Any company with a crucial web presence definitely does not have better things to than stop this bill from being passed.
Well, it simply highlights the fact that whilst people may deceive themselves into thinking that what's good for companies is good for everyone (due to increasing of wealth and production), we realise that companies are in it for the people who run the companies, and if there so happens to be some downright abhorrent legislation that may benefit them, they'll support it until it becomes an issue where the net impact will be negative, due to bad press and the like.
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I guess the question that gets immediately raised in my mind is: what the heck were these companies doing supporting the damned thing in the first place?
It's like the rats scattering when the light turns on. Is all of corporate America happy to support these egregious pieces of legislation as long as the public doesn't find out?
That last part was mostly rhetorical... mostly.
As I've said elsewhere, conservation of incompetence seems the likeliest explanation. The companies have better things to do, so no one in charge realizes that they're dues paying members of an organization that's advancing a truly moronic cause.
Until the press gets involved, then things get escalated and straightened back out.
Assuming that's in the neighborhood of truth, it highlights the importance of a press free from government and corporate interference.
SOPA is pretty egregious, and it looks like it could get everyone in a lot of trouble given the way someone can merely allege copyright infringement and get a site blacklisted.
Any company with a crucial web presence definitely does not have better things to than stop this bill from being passed.
Well, it simply highlights the fact that whilst people may deceive themselves into thinking that what's good for companies is good for everyone (due to increasing of wealth and production), we realise that companies are in it for the people who run the companies, and if there so happens to be some downright abhorrent legislation that may benefit them, they'll support it until it becomes an issue where the net impact will be negative, due to bad press and the like.
It's morality by committee.