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Karen Kwiatkowski's Campaign Highlights Bob Goodlatte's Sponsorship of SOPA!

Submitted by Waskily Wabbit on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 13:27
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There's nothing like having a viable libertarian-Republican running against a corporatist Constitution-basher. Bob Goodlatte strongly supported the Patriot Act and other Unconstitutional bills. And now he has authored SOPA.

Bob Goodlatte is his own worst enemy! From techdirt:

Challengers Highlighting Reps Who Want To Censor The Internet
from the mucking-with-the-internet-can-backfire dept

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That is awesome! Nice video.

Submitted by Waskily Wabbit on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 10:28.

That is awesome! Nice video. : )

Kinsella is a sharp dude. I

Submitted by Evan42 on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 16:43.

Kinsella is a sharp dude.

I highly recommend any of his classes he teaches at mises institute. He's very firendly and approachable and a great teacher.

Some people in the

Submitted by Waskily Wabbit on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 15:14.

Some people in the comments section are making some ridiculous claims. Anonymous Coward said, if someone comes out against SOPA, they are for stealing people's property and support piracy.

information isn't

Submitted by Evan42 on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 15:16.

information isn't "property".

If anyone thinks otherwise, I'd be very curious to hear what and why there are "property rights" in the first place.

Property?

Submitted by DriftForge on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 17:58.

Depends on how you define property I suppose.

But it cannot be said that information is not valuable.

Nor can you 'force' me to divulge information to you that I don't want you to have.

The only difference to 'property' is that information once shared is commonly held by those in possession of it.

If not managed carefully, its value very quickly drops from one based on scarcity to one of distribution capacity.

Therefore value can very much be 'stolen' from someone who is managing the transition between the two scenarios.

so what is your definition of

Submitted by Evan42 on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 01:37.

so what is your definition of "property" and why have any such concept as "property rights" in the first place?

You don't need another piece

Submitted by Waskily Wabbit on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 19:36.

You don't need another piece of unconstitutional legislation for that. Our judicial system is sufficiently prepared to deal with cases of theft.

This is not about piracy or foreign rogue websites per se. Its about protecting a corporatist business model and cracking down on perceived threats to corporate and Hollywood media, and by extension, government propaganda, which enables centralized power.

Super-regulators like Bob Goodlatte are more willing to comply with corporatist lobbyists than the limitations of their own Constitutional authority.

Where exactly in the Constitution is Bob Goodlatte authorized to pick market winners and market losers or disregard any of the Constitution's amendments? If he were aiming to repeal or amend the first amendment, that might be another story, but he's not.

(Google, "Americans for Tax Reform" and "clean Balanced Budget Amendment" for an example of how his last attempt to amend the Constitution turned out.)