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Tell Obama to Promise SOPA 2.0 Never Gets Written

After the historic protests in January SOPA and PIPA were ‘shelved’.

However, the Obama administration is still dedicated to strengthen copyright enforcement.

Not only through legislation, but also by supporting agreements that put the public at risk of having their Internet disconnected if they are caught pirating.

Fight For The Future is encouraging people to let the President know that this is not what they want.

“Can you believe this? After the largest online protest in history, the Obama administration is still voicing support for SOPA,” they write.

“Tell Obama to promise: “I will never advance legislation that blocks websites or disconnects Americans’ internet access.”"

More info at Fight For The Future’s campaign page.

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  • Anonymous

    I got a better thing to tell Obama:

    Promise your presidency term 2.0 never happens.

    • Anyone

      he still is the lesser evil, so there isn’t really a choice

      • Anon

        Lesser Evil ? Are you sure ?
        Im sorry, but if the Blackout never took place, and if SOPA was on the desk of Obama, he would have signed it ! 100% SURE !
        It’s simple, Obama is a democrat, and Hollywood is democrat !
        Obama is just another corporate bitch, highy on the side of the entertainment industry. His donation mostly come from these bitches at Hollywood.
        As far as I know, any of the guys in GOP are highy sponsored by the entertainment.
        Even when it was G.W Bush, the internet was safer ! (he was too busy with his stupid Iraq war) .
        Just remember, the domain seizure and all this shit came because it was the idea of the Obama Administration !

        • Anyone

          on the other hand republicans will do anything to help their corporate buddies, no matter the damage to their voters
          just look at the Bush tax cuts for an example, that thing is responsible for most of the defecit but instead of taxing the rich a fair amount they try to cut everything else (except military, of course)

        • Anonymous

          Both parties are, but there are elements within those parties that strongly disagree with the others. For instance; Ron Paul, many people on the list of people who, from the start on, opposed PIPA/SOPA.

        • squanto

          an to think it would have been any better with MCcain or Palin, no they dont take money from special interest cause its the thing to do

        • Anyone

          yes, both parties are very corrupt
          it just happens that the republicans are usually worse, not the least because of all the jesus crap

        • bj

          Introduce the Pirate Party

        • SunshineWankr

          Bush seized the ENTIRE Iraqi top level domain (.iq) and had it transferred to US DOD control!

          With no judicial oversight whatsoever, and ICANN let it pass.

          Obama is a politician, and we all know how much we can trust them. But I’d trust him with my life over the other lot.

        • Gipsy

          OBAMA / ROMNEY = SAME

      • Guest

        there is ron paul who may choose to do a 3rd party run coming with support from the independants and the democrats who hate obama on civil libertys like ralph nader and dennis kucinich.who if voted for can destroy the mpaa with free markets meaning they actually have to try making products without government support so then they will get bought by the it industry unlike what obummer wants.

      • No

        yea, from what i see that should be about right, he’s no more or less of a liar than any other politician at that level would be but he somehow seems to have some ideals left dug in … it’s a bit scary really but he convinces way better than that android Bush did (that’s a bladerunner reference since google usurped the word)

    • ChristoSharp

      not all his fault. a lot of the debt is from the war that a dumbass redneck started. and don’t say other wise.

    • Gipsy

      Both sides corrupt as fuck.

      Hate Obama ? You should hate republicans too.

      IF NOT , you’re just another moron getting in the way.

    • Wolfie

      So your gonna support the Rich Mormon huh? No thanks .. Obama was left with a huge mess created by George W Bush… thats the problem with you Republicans, you let them piss on you and you believe it when they say it’s only raining….

  • XFyrios

    They’re half way to their goal with the petition! Only 75000 more signatures to go!

  • 123
    • 456

      Yeah, Mike Rogers is a dickhead for doing that. We need a political party that represents freedom rather than corruption.

  • kwame

    A promise wouldn’t mean much. Public promises and back-room betrayals are a politician’s modus operandi.
    Instead of a promise, demand action: DUMP JOE BIDEN! BIDEN MUST GO!

  • Nnw

    Tell Obama to … [insert]

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  • Ero

    Tell to Obama he legalize file sharing.

    • SunshineWankr

      It is legal!

      Tell him to reform copyright and not to accept any more Mickey Mouse money.

      • Sdsd

        Ok so tell obama to he legalize sharing of copyrighted content.

        • Whoareyou

          He should get rid of the bullshit copyright laws. But he’s the kind of guy that would accept some campaign donations in turn for more strict laws in the MPAA’s favor.

    • Mad

      file sharing is not illegal as far as i know :-)

  • Philipp JFR

    Never seen anything more moronic. By what power can Obama stop Congress from legislating anything?

    • Anyone

      it’s called veto power

      • Anonymous

        The congress can override the veto with a reconsideration vote, this needs a 66% majority.

  • Fddf

    Tell obama to he legalize sharing of copyrighted content.

    • Gipsy

      or make lurking on people that are sharing illegal

      exception: Only lurking at people sharing ILLEGAL content like C.P

  • Lisa Nelson

    Obama promises any thing
    Then he do what they want
    He’s a puppet

    • Garzilla

      Agreed…Obama can promise anything and it doesn’t mean he will keep it…especially in his 2nd term…I’d rather put someone new in who has to worry about re-election, than have a 2nd Obama term, where he has nothing to lose…and whoever said the Iraq war, “started by the stupid redneck”…how about Libya, Syria, and continuing in Iraq & Afgan by Obama…

  • None

    Vote for whomever you want. But it was the Republican House that stopped SOPA/PIPA, the Heritage foundation made a major push to flip some Republican leaders in the House and the legislation failed – had it gotten out of the House, it would have won easily in the Senate and Obama would have signed it in a flash.

  • Antisemantic

    the voice of support is probably directly related to the amount of monetary input in case of that kind of campaign … the voice of public opinion however … might have a chance , i’d try to convince the americans to get whatever capable folk they have to organize their own pirate party, even if the would have to change the name because open eyes would learn that appearance means a lot, especially in elections overthere because they seem to need reform at basic levels before anything can change for the better really, no impossible fight has never been proven to be unable to be won …. wuagh i lost myself there

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