[Tllts] SOPA is not dead, was: Re: SOPA

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On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:28:54AM -0500, Joel Mclaughlin wrote:
> Update....
> 
> SOPA IS DEAD!
> 
> http://www.examiner.com/computers-in-denver/house-kills-sopa
> 
> http://www.infowars.com/dead-on-arrival-sopa-shelved-indefinitely-obama-succumbs-to-pressure-issues-official-veto-threat/
> 
> PIPA Still in play.

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Mike Masnick:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120117/12563317437/its-baaaaaaaaack-lamar-smith-says-sopa-markup-to-resume-february.shtml

quotes a press release from Lamar Smith, but nothing on Smith's site
right now that I can see.

http://lamarsmith.house.gov/

Aside: a problem with political activity is that you are vulnerable to
folks who are a lot more clever at political activity than you are.  Ex:
if the response to 'SOPA is dead' was 'ok, then I won't blackout the
site', you just got pwned.  Note that this is a problem, not necessarily
a reason not to be political (but you already knew that).