Just a heads up for the US users SOPA has resurfaced and arguably worse.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/07/unauthorized-streaming-felony_n_3720479.html

Petition to Stop:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/stop-sopa-2013/LMzMVrQF#thank-you=p

Obama is the worst president in US history

At this point, he's even worse than Reagan or Nixon

So true.

Hard to argue, it's crazy how many filibusters this government cycle is seeing. What a mess.

Doesn't he have better things to do?

Economy and Chemical weapon control should be the focus of his Presidential duties.

I was under the impression streaming was helping the economy. People see or listen to material they like and go buy it.

That's because he's an empty suit, someone who the US establishment allowed to gain office to put a smiley face on the all the worst aspect of US policy.

I'm sure at some stage the military advisers, corporates, foreign policy-men and the rest decided that it's just too damaging to have a Caucasian guy as US President, not with all the nasty shit they wanted to ram down the throat of their country (and the world), you know "White racist guy invading other countries" etc, Bush did big damage to image of US.

Can't really argue with that.. You could even argue he's worse than Bush.

The really, really sad thing is, though, that he's probably still better than his Republican rival candidates would have been.

If this passes pretty much a large number of the human race is going to be tried and arrested.

BECAUSE ALMOST EVERY SINGLE HUMAN ON THIS WORLD HAS STREAMED COPY-RIGHT INFRINGING CONTENT ON THE INTERNET!

That's the point, I think. There's probably a term for it, "political entrapment strategy" or something. But I don't think it's a mistake that for the longest part the Vietnam War was carried out by a (liberal) Democratic President, it was impossible for Americans to come out against the war in the "traditional" way, by voting someone else into office, because the alternate (the Republicans) were even worse, so they were trapped.

It's this constant pushing of the envelope because they know there's no viable opposition (at least in the "mainstream" 2-party system).

Well, we've got 5-6 parties in our parliament and it's not really much better. Just shows how you can fuck up every political system (though the reasons are different, the effect is the same: two major parties that are essentially the same rule everything with an iron fist).

This is where I mumble buzzwords like, 'Division of regency', 'Federal Council', 'death to Congress', and 'Why can't the United Kingdom just take us back?'

You may also add, "Almost the whole human race will be arrested if this bill passes."

That's not a buzzword, that's an actual concern related to the issue of governance and corporate marriage.

The US Government can't even do anything about the 12+ Million people in the country illegally. How can they possibly hope to do anything about the hundreds of million people on the internet.

Litirally whats the point of money when the whole human race is arrested, no one will be buying anything or going to events like movies and concerts etc. when they are all in jail. And think about it I think some of these corporate suits and politicians and celebraties are guilty of streaming copyrighted material aswell so they fucked themselves for passing this law. Cities and towns and settlements will start being empty because everyone pirated gangnam style.

Are these people so ignorant, narrow-minded, short-term thinking, less than human creatures not see how illogical this bill is?!