




I. Guilty Until Proven Innocent -- Foreign Websites


Basically here's how the action will work:


On the ISP crackdown:


On the crackdown on search results:


On the advertising crackdown:


This action will come from the U.S. Attorney General:









Google Buillding

Important things to consider here:
  • The U.S. taxpayers are paying for this enforcement.


To do this they will have to:

A. Raises taxes to support new enforcement employees.





The following Representatives sponsored the bill:
Lamar Smith (R-TX) [] *
John Conyers (D-MI) []
Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) []
Howard L. Berman (D-CA) []
Tim Griffin (R-AR) []
Elton Gallegly (R-CA) []
Theodore E. Deutch (D-FL) []
Steve Chabot (R-OH) []
Dennis Ross (R-FL) [] *
Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) []
Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) []
Lee Terry (R-NE) []
Adam B. Schiff (D-CA) []
Mel Watt (D-NC) []
John Carter (R-TX) [] *
Karen Bass (D-CA) []
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) []
Peter King (R-NY) []
Mark E. Amodei (R-NV) []
Tom Marino (R-PA) []
Alan Nunnelee (R-MS) []
John Barrow (D-GA) []
Steve Scalise (R-LA) [] *
Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) []
William L. Owens (D-NY) []


Lamar Smith (R)
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Source: U.S. House of Representatives

Comments     Threshold


RE: When is the last time the House
By Reclaimer77 on 11/17/2011 1:49:49 AM , Rating: -1
The title clearly states,

Obviously that was just for posterity sake, cause by the tone and wording of the article, one would think the House proposing a bill automatically makes it law.

RE: When is the last time the House
By Fritzr on 11/17/2011 4:05:32 AM , Rating: 2
Yes you would think that the House is considering a new law after reading this article.

You might even start with that bias if you paid attention in school when they described the way the US government operates.

The procedure is in essence simple
1. A congressman or Senator writes a Bill for consideration by their House of Congress
2. The bill is then proposed to the House/Senate, usually after being considered by a committee whose job it is to prescreen new bills
3. A sponsor in the opposite Senate/House body proposes a version of the bill
4 The bill is then proposed to the Senate/House, usually after being considered by a committee whose job it is to prescreen new bills
5 IF BOTH houses of Congress pass their respective versions of the proposed bill THEN it is given over to another committee who writes a brand new bill that merges the two versions just passed.
6. The revised bill is then proposed to both the House and the Senate and if passed without further revision, presented to the President for a signature.

This bill is at step 1 or 2. Now is the time for the public to speak out & for the news media to tear it to pieces. If we wait until the President announces his decision about signing, then we have no say in what Congress does.

By blueaurora on 11/17/2011 7:20:48 AM , Rating: 2
Those media sources that have a bias obviously would word an article to flame the aggression of its audience into action. This article is no different.

Piracy is something that must be dealt with and no one has a good solution at this point. Until all these companies finally get everything in the cloud instead of in your hands there isn't much they can do.

Once the dark cloud rises.... its all over.

By yomamafor1 on 11/17/2011 10:16:48 AM , Rating: 2
Then one needs to go back to elementary school and relearn US Constitution and US history.



The article clearly states that the Judiciary Committee is in the process of debating the SOPA, not the House itself. Anyone with 2 brain cells would know that this bill is far from being debated on the House floor.

I think you need to turn down your partisan reactionary response a bit.

