12-21-2011, 03:05 PM
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It's 42
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SOPA is dead in committee probably;
If you voted yes to the Polis amendment you made the law unconstitutional (exclusive of legal speech). If you voted no you supported lawful but pornographic speech and the expenditure of public fund to enforce that right.
Damned if you do damned if you don't.
SOPA bit the dust.
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[P]olis then offered an amendment that would stop the Justice Department from using SOPA?s vast powers to aid adult industry businesses who happen to hold valid copyrights. ?Pornography should not be the focus of the attorney general?s protection,? he said.
It was a brilliant tactical maneuver. First, it delayed discussions while members of the august Judiciary committee wrangled with how to handle this unusual conversational detour. Second, it put SOPA-supporting chairman Lamar Smith, a conservative Republican whose district is largely Texas Hill Country, on the defensive by appearing to show him siding with the intellectual-property rights of people who create triple-X movies.
Smith said that, although his ?personal opposition? to the adult industry and its products is well-known, ?we need to respect the discretion of federal law enforcement officials.?
http://sfluxe.com/2011/12/17/interne...ate-cnet-news/
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/...-%20FAILED.pdf
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