Congressional SOPA hearings: no opponents of the bill allowed
Read and Reblog please!!
“As the House of Representatives opens hearings on SOPA, the worst piece of Internet legislation in American history, it has rejected all submissions and testimony from public interest groups and others who oppose the bill.
Irony Alert: The House is holding hearings on sweeping Internet censorship legislation this week — and it’s censoring the opposition! The bill is backed by Hollywood, Big Pharma, and the Chamber of Commerce, and all of them are going to get to testify at the hearing.
But the bill’s opponents — tech companies, free speech and human rights activists, and hundreds of thousands of Internet users — won’t have a voice.”
[Copy & Pasted from the link to make things clearer]
How can you make informed decisins if you don’t hear both sides of an argument?
You CAN’T.
A few other articles on the subject since after reading this I sure as heck wanted to know more:
• Washington Post: SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) lawmaker opposition grows as debate heats up
• Mobiledia: Piracy Bill Opposition Increases As Legislators Ready Vote
• Ars Technica: Strange bedfellows: Nancy Pelosi, Ron Paul join SOPA opposition
• CBS News: SOPA opposition from tech heavyweights Google, Facebook
• OS News: SOPA Hearing Rigged to Attack Google, SOPA Opponents
