1.18.12 Bee-otch of the Day: supporters of SOPA and PIPA

BECOME AN AFFILIATE OF T-SHIRT HELL AND MAKE SOME MONEY! DON'T FORGET TO "LIKE" BEE-OTCH OF THE DAY ON FACEBOOK! ------------------- News Corp. is one of many supporters of SOPA. Names: various Ages: various Occupations: various Last Seen: everywhere Bee-otched For: supporting internet censorship --- If you want to go to Wikipedia today, you better know a foreign language. The popular internet encyclopedia has shut down their English sites for 24 hours in protest of two bills flying around in both the House and Senate that are clearly anti-First Amendment. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Internet Protocol Act (PIPA) are two bills that are clearly pro-big business. Basically put, if anybody is selling or distributing anything not truly belonging to them and it affects the profits of big business, that site will be shut down. Although the two bills' supporters claim that they're only targeting foreign sites, many feel that the bills are just an excuse for more policing on the internet. Case in point: look at some of the companies supporting SOPA: News Corp., Disney, TimeWarner, Walmart, Nike, Sony, Comcast, Visa and MasterCard. Yep! All billion-dollar companies that could care less about the small guy like you and me. Even worse, guess who also supports the two bills? BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS ALIKE.  Sadly, the two bills show that the issue of internet piracy is nowhere close to being a Democrat or Republican issue. It's all about how much one will buy out a candidate for. But, it's the same thing for the people who oppose SOPA/PIPA too. Republicans like Ron Paul and Michigan's Justin Amash (and amazingly, Michele Bachmann) and Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Virginia senator Mark Warner have all opposed the bill. But guess who also is against SOPA/PIPA? OBAMA! Earlier in the week, the president weighed in, stating that he would veto both bills, especially since they're basically designed to curtail to big business and kill jobs. Thankfully, the government is starting to backpedal on this issue as more opposition from the general public is coming out against the bills. It's also worth mentioning that most of the companies that oppose SOPA/PIPA are internet-related: Google, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter and Zynga. craigslist posted on their website that one reason why they're against the bills is because Monster Cable is crying that 2nd hand sales of their cables are costing them huge profits of new cables. Look, this is America. I shouldn't be sued by Samsung just because I sold one of their old TVs to a pawn shop. True, a lot of stuff you see online isn't totally legal. Hell, I ganked the News Corp. logo off another website some time ago and is now on my server. Is Uncle Rupert going to sue me for using his logo without permish? Prolly not. In all, count me in as one of SOPA/PIPA's opposers. Censorship is beyond un-American, and we shouldn't allow corporate America to screw us over just so they can see more profits while we suffer more. Let's keep the internet, and freedom free. Or in my case, let's prevent the web from turning into a Grand Rapids strip club. --- Got a Bee-otch to nominate? E-mail us @ chuck69dotcom@gmail.com. All suggestions (except for me) are welcome! Bee-otch of the Day Archives can be seen on http://beeotchoftheday.blogspot.com ! Bee-otch of the Day is a production of Chuck69.com, Grand Rapids' site for Stern, politics and more!