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Cin · 01-05-2012, 07:51 PM

The U.S. loves SOPA so much they want every country to have one just like it. The U.S. has for years been bullying countries into passing stringent internet copyright and patent laws. If countries don't comply they are added to the Special 301 Report that is used to intimidate them with political pressure and potential trade sanctions.

It amazes me that of all the things to get your panties in a twist about, internet copyright law is the big issue to the U.S. Not coercing countries surrounding human rights violations or violence against women or disturbing environmental practices. Not bullying countries into protecting the world's oceans or a million other issues, nope the U.S. will use it's might, it's right to straighten out copyright and patent law on the internet. Gee I wonder who benefits from moves like that.

The latest country to be taken to task is Spain. Considering that newly departed Spanish prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero feels that the ruling he’s most proud of from his nearly eight years in office is the passage of full marriage rights for his gay and lesbian countrymen, Spain might be able to show the U.S. a thing or two about doing the right thing.

Here are articles about the U.S.'s crusade to take internet censorship global:
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews..._blocking_law/
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/1...spain-proposed
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/0...uasion-special

01-05-2012, 07:51 PM	#1877
Cin Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: Truly Madly Deeply Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: In My Head Posts: 2,814 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,333 Thanked 10,404 Times in 2,476 Posts Rep Power: 21474851	The U.S reaches out and touches other countries coercing them into internet censorship. The U.S. loves SOPA so much they want every country to have one just like it. The U.S. has for years been bullying countries into passing stringent internet copyright and patent laws. If countries don't comply they are added to the Special 301 Report that is used to intimidate them with political pressure and potential trade sanctions. It amazes me that of all the things to get your panties in a twist about, internet copyright law is the big issue to the U.S. Not coercing countries surrounding human rights violations or violence against women or disturbing environmental practices. Not bullying countries into protecting the world's oceans or a million other issues, nope the U.S. will use it's might, it's right to straighten out copyright and patent law on the internet. Gee I wonder who benefits from moves like that. The latest country to be taken to task is Spain. Considering that newly departed Spanish prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero feels that the ruling he’s most proud of from his nearly eight years in office is the passage of full marriage rights for his gay and lesbian countrymen, Spain might be able to show the U.S. a thing or two about doing the right thing. Here are articles about the U.S.'s crusade to take internet censorship global: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews..._blocking_law/ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/1...spain-proposed https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/0...uasion-special __________________ The reason facts don’t change most people’s opinions is because most people don’t use facts to form their opinions. They use their opinions to form their “facts.” Neil Strauss