first step:

1._ No subscriber to this group will ever buy a under copyright item
2._ No subscriber to this group will ever go to a cinema
3._ No subscriber to this group will ever buy film on pay tv
4._ No subscriber to this group will ever buy a book (paper or e-book)
5._ No subscriber to this group will ever buy a news paper
6._ No subscriber to this group will ever buy a magazine of any kind
7._ No subscriber to this group will ever buy a CD
8._ No subscriber to this group will ever buy a DVD

My solution is companies like YouTube threat to leave the USA if this goes ahead, Americans will still suffer but at least the rest of the world won’t have too.

I wonder if Stacey also tried this approach when GATT, NAFTA, Patriot Act, and NDAA were passed.

these are public servants who are deliberately committing acts of treason to dissolve the United States and merge us into a global government. They don’t deserve ‘politeness’! Or any other form of respect.

This is why the federal constitution was designed to protect individual liberty, not provide “benefits”.

To a great extent, GoDaddy, like every other business, is behaving rationally given the rules of the game. It’s just that the rules of the game have been stacked against the individual in favor of those with access to the government’s purse. This is true of the Cadillac driving welfare queen just as much as it is of the “greedy” corporation that supports legislation that increases it’s bottom line.

What’s the solution? Return the federal government it’s constitutional purpose – protect individual liberty.

Now you’re not going to scare somebody like Lamar Smith into changing his position on a bill that he wrote. He performed all the necessary political calculations before introducing the bill, and he knows he’s in a secure seat (won 70% in the last election, and 80% in the one before that when he didn’t even have a Democratic opponent.) So the letter that Stacey sent isn’t going to make a difference because it’s a “fear your seat” letter.

Convincing him he’s wrong and showing him a better way would be the better approach, but this is where the SOPA opponents come up empty. The vast bulk – like 99.999% – of the SOPA criticism on the web shows ignorance of what the bill actually does and/or ignorance of how it interacts with things like the DNS in general or DNSSEC in particular. And the SOPA opponents don’t have anything to offer as an alternative other than OPEN, which is just a subset of SOPA under a different agency.

In general, if you want to make a dent on Congress you have to be clear on your own position, you have to have the facts straight, and you have to be right.

SOPA’s enemies come up short on all these counts, so they deserve to fail.