Sites like Google are expressing their disapproval of SOPA, Wikipedia has shut down, as well as Reddit. It is important to note any major quotes from lawmakers or constituents so that they are on the record.
White House: We will not support cornerstones of these legislations so long as they restrict american freedom and promote censorship.
Rupert Murdoch (CEO News Corp/Fox News): "Big bipartisan majorities both houses sold out by POTUS for search
engines. How about 2.2 m workers in entertainment industry? Piracy
rules,
Rupert Murdoch (CEO News Corp/Fox News): "Nonsense argument about danger to Internet. How about Google, others blocking porn, hate speech, etc? Internet hurt?"
Google Public Relations: "This is just nonsense," said a Google spokesperson in a statement.
"Last year we took down five million infringing web pages from our
search results and invested more than $60 million in the fight against
bad ads.
Eric Cantor, Speaker of the House in the United States House of Representatives: Unless anyone has anything constructive to say, we are shelving SOPA until further notice.
Christopher Dodd (CEO of MPAA Motion Picture Association of America): SOPA isn't going anywhere. Lamar will reactivate it in February.
Rupert Murdoch (CEO News Corp/Fox News): "So Obama has thrown in his lot with Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery,"
White House: Any effort to combat online piracy must guard
against the risk of online censorship of lawful activity and must not
inhibit innovation by our dynamic businesses large and small"
Rupert Murdoch (CEO News Corp/Fox News): "As for myspace, we screwed up big time
Steve Ballmer (Microsoft CEO): As this thing stands, we are not supporting it.
Nintendo, Electronic Arts and Sony: We never supported this thing in the first place.
Jimmy Wales, CEO of Wikipedia: Proponents of SOPA have characterized the opposition as being people who support piracy, and that isn't really the point. The bill is so broad and poorly writen that it will impact all kinds of things that have nothing to do with stopping piracy.
"MPAA Spokesperson: ""We just want people to know, by being told by the government, that they shouldn't be there".
MPAA Spokesperson: "We're working on a compromise. Either we sue companies, or have the power to tell search engines to censor illegal searches if SOPA/PIPA fails.
Democratic Chief of Staff: “It was a no-brainer vote until the White House decided to blow it up."
Republican Party: "You know, we are starting to think that the piracy bills are going to be put off till next year. Nothing is getting done on them."
Senator Jim DeMint (Republican): "Misguided legislation."
Christopher Dodd (MPAA CEO): "Only days after the White House and chief sponsors of the legislation
responded to the major concern expressed by opponents and then called
for all parties to work cooperatively together, some technology business
interests are resorting to stunts that punish their users or turn them
into their corporate pawns, rather than coming to the table to find
solutions to a problem that all now seem to agree is very real and
damaging,” he said."
Ben Cardin (Democratic Senator from Maryland): After having my phone ring off the hook, I can no longer support this legislation. There are way too many concerns with this bill.
Michael Leary (Vice President of MPAA): We are built upon 1st Amendment rights: we would NEVER support anything that would take that away.
Barack Obama, President of the United States: "Any provision covering Internet intermediaries such as online
advertising networks, payment processors, or search engines must be
transparent and designed to prevent overly broad private rights of
action that could encourage unjustified litigation that could discourage
startup businesses and innovative firms from growing."
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Previous News Corporations Censoring Any Information on SOPA before Internet Blackout:
Fox News
CBS
ABC
NBC
CNN
Wall Street Journal
Time Warner
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Previous News Corporations COVERING SOPA before blackout:
Reuters
Associated Press
Huffington Post
New York Times
Forbes
News Corporations that once censored SOPA now covering SOPA during the protest:
CNN
CBS
Wall Street Journal
NBC
News Corporations who remain defiant and still censor during protest:
Fox News
ABC (Disney)
Time Warner
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Interpreted Statements by Rupert Murdoch, CEO of Fox News:
-The American People bought out Congress. We, the people (the corporations) are the victims.
-The American People are theives and pirates (the customer).
-Google is the source of this piracy problem.
Interpreted Statements made by Jimmy Wales, CEO of Wikipedia:
-Rupert Murdoch is ludicrous in his claims.
-We don't profit off of piracy.
-To stop piracy, follow the money, not block DNS and break internet
-Anti-SOPA supporters seen as theives and pirates.
-SOPA/PIPA will hurt sectors that have nothing to do with piracy
Interpreted Statements made by Representative Chafettz:
-I don't want to touch this thing, and quite frankly, it is becoming toxic legislation.
Interpreted Statements made by Steve Ballmer:
-Microsoft will not support SOPA or PIPA "as written" with DNS blocking or freedom revokes
Interpreted Statements made by Sony/EA/Nintendo
-Some jackass mixed two letters. We wanted something done about piracy, but NOT PIPA/SOPA.
Interpreted Statements made by MPAA
Fine, some of us get why DNS blocking won't work, but we still want people to be slapped on the wrist for going to rogue sites, even to browse. Even if SOPA fails, we still essentially want censorship done our way.
Interpreted Statements by the Democratic Chiefs of Staff
I was going to vote for this thing until Obama blew it out of proportion.
Interpreted Statements by the Republican Party
If we touch it in a year, we won't have to worry about election consequences before November. Push this off until then so we can get away with it.
Interpreted Statements made by Eric Cantor, Speaker of the House
Take your bill and revise it for the next month. If it doesn't appeal to a consensus to move it to the floor, then I am not accepting it.
Interpreted Statements made by Chrisopher Dodd, CEO of MPAA
You're all a bunch of misguided fools being used as pawns by tech special interests. This is nothing more than a stunt designed to punish web users.
Interpreted Statements made by Michael Leary, Vice President of MPAA
We are not trying to censor people with this bill! We just want to protect our work.
Interpreted Statements made by Barack Obama
I am not supporting something that gives corporations the ability to abuse and violate the Constitution.
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