Why TST Opposes SOPA

by Ryan Van Bibber on Jan 18, 2012 8:53 AM CST

We try to avoid the political on this site, limiting our partisanship to our role as fans of the St. Louis Rams. However, we're now dealing with a matter of politics that threatens our communities and, of particular interest to me, our livelihood.

The SOPA legislation is intended to stop digital piracy. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. I see content from this site cut and pasted word for word on shady websites whose sole reason for existence is gaming Google Adwords. Piracy hurts the artists we enjoy, artists we want to support so that they can continue making records, movies, etc.

But there has to be a more sensible. less heavy-handed way than pulling a page out of the Gitmo Decade and threatening communities like ours.

The tech guys over at The Verge, SBNation's sister company under the Vox Media banner, have a much more in-depth argument laid out against this legislation, legislation that threatens to unconstitutional seizure of private property, something all of us, left and right, can agree is wrong.

Go read it. Then go take action right here.

Alright, back to regularly scheduled programming.

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TST puts the SOPA

in sopapilla! And yes, SOPA and PIPA are fucking jokes. Let’s all just agree that everyone in charge are idiots and to just leave the internet to smarter people than they. Yay Amurrca!

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by 3k on Jan 18, 2012 8:57 AM CST reply actions

But please remember to contact congress.

We won’t get the internet to the hands of smarter people if they pass stuff like this.

And remember. Phone calls and snail mail are the most effective means of contact. Email can come from anywhere, a postmark or area code on a caller ID let them know you are a constituent.

by Danrarbc on Jan 18, 2012 9:22 AM CST up reply actions

Agreed

Time for everyone in charge to go. Along with all the lobbyists funding SOPA/PIPA. Washington is a cluster f*ck!

At least the Rams are looking up! :)

by KSRamFan on Jan 18, 2012 9:56 AM CST up reply actions

You and me are gonna have a problem you rip off KSR

Note to Douglas M: Remember that 99% of what I say involves BS

by King Sam Rules! on Jan 18, 2012 10:47 AM CST via mobile up reply actions

Ohhh

Took me a minute to figure out what you meant. No worries I have two logins I didn’t even realize I was logged into this one. I don’t like this screen name much so I created a new one. My browser just keeps wanting me to log in under this name. The screen name I am using now is KeSt.

by KSRamFan on Jan 18, 2012 11:17 AM CST up reply actions

See

You can be the only KSR. :P

by KeSt on Jan 18, 2012 11:18 AM CST up reply actions

Ok, good

Glad we handled that, haha

Note to Douglas M: Remember that 99% of what I say involves BS

by King Sam Rules! on Jan 18, 2012 11:43 AM CST via mobile up reply actions

Crisis averted

by KeSt on Jan 18, 2012 11:51 AM CST up reply actions

I could always just ban King Sam Rules

that’d fix the problem too

just kidding…

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by Eric Nagel on Jan 18, 2012 12:08 PM CST up reply actions

It looks like the law is so broad that even posting pics may cause a problem...No more Kate?

Join my Google+ circle

by Douglas M on Jan 18, 2012 2:53 PM CST up reply actions

NOW THEYVE GONE TOO FAR!

Bradford + Blackmon = Secondaries Beware

by RG31 on Jan 18, 2012 3:50 PM CST via mobile up reply actions

KILL THEM ALL

Note to Douglas M: Remember that 99% of what I say involves BS

by King Sam Rules! on Jan 18, 2012 7:08 PM CST via mobile up reply actions

Why not

Join the blackout that Wikipedia and other sites have instituted for this one day? Sure it’s merely symbolic but it drives home the point that politicians could take your favorite site out anytime they wanted to because of legislation like SOPA/PIPA.

by CumberlandRam on Jan 18, 2012 9:59 AM CST reply actions

kudos Van

Terrible bill that must be stopped.

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by jroman on Jan 18, 2012 10:05 AM CST reply actions 1 recs

Vox Media

is owned by Comcast, Allen & Company – whose CEO sits on the board of Coca-Cola – and Vinod Khosla, one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems, a big-time contributor to Wikipedia, and the self-appointed Guru of Clean Tech. Not that there’s anything wrong with that!

No offense, but anything those hypocrites/nutters Nancy Pelosi and Ron Paul are for, I’m against.

by benjamin63_99 on Jan 18, 2012 10:12 AM CST reply actions

Kudos for taking a stand on this issue.

And thank you for the link. More information is always preferred over less.

"I’m sorry for all the people who want us to run the ball 40 times a game, but we’re going to put the ball in No. 9’s hands and he’s going to make plays for us like he did today," Lions coach Jim Schwartz said. Amen to that Jim!

by NorthLeft12 on Jan 18, 2012 10:24 AM CST reply actions

SOPA- Big Brother is growing at a rapid pace.

If you like your rights and freedoms, something has to be done now! Do as Bibber says and send out letters to OUR representatives immediately. Our government has lost all fear of “We The People” and it shows. Since it is very relevant to this subject matter, presidential primaries are coming up in your state. Get out and vote for the only man who has an unwavering plan to return our freedoms and get us out of this mess. Ron Paul is that man.

Ron Paul 2012

by Everett 11 on Jan 18, 2012 11:35 AM CST reply actions