Colorado Rep. Jared Polis on SOPA

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Rep. Jared Polis, Web entrepreneur, on SOPA (Q&A)
Rep. Jared Polis probably knows more about how Internet businesses work than does any other member of the U.S. Congress

Comments

[layweed]

WARGLE IT'S JUST A SERIES OF TUBES ARGLE.

It's amazing that some of the biggest companies on the internet are against this, but Congress is blindly charging on, prodded by lobbyists from the MPAA/RIAA. Because obviously, the biggest players on the internet have no fucking clue what's going on, right?

[baked_goldfish]

hdu, Congress isn't blindly charging in. They have reports, in the form of campaign checks from MPAA/RIAA. That tells them all they need to know.

[layweed]

potato, potato =\

[vulturoso]

It's called arrogance, baby.

[sentinelsoul]

The Channel Awesome crew are apparently heading to D.C. to protest SOPA and speak with their senators and reps. I can't help but think that Congress won't know what hit them. It'll be like when Dee Snider testifed, they'll be amazed that he actually, y'know, is an intelligent human being.

[bouncy_erbear]

They did and I believe it was Angry Joe, Spoony, Linkara and Rob. /was reading their tweets about it/ I think Nostalgia Chick put up a video about the experience too, though I haven't watched it yet so I can't say what the content is or what it covers.

[lucia_tanaka]

Spoony put up one. VERY enlightening to the problem: Apparently a huge number of the people they talked to didn't realize SOPA would kill an entire domestic industry.

[bouncy_erbear]

I plan to watch it later.

Yeah, not surprised. From what I can tell very few people in Congress have done their research. BUT WHY SHOULD I BE SURPRISED BY THAT? >_

[msloserrific]

Could we change the tag to "Hotties in the News", maybe?

[lucia_tanaka]

I watched this cool cat on the stream last night. Rock on, dude. I hope his countermeasure amendment makes it through.