Twitchythe3rd wrote:Cyberstrike wrote:As much I support President Obama the sad truth is: that the Obama Administration has a long and sad history of saying their against or for something but always caves to GOP/Wall Street/Special Interests/Corprations at the end.
Even if Obama doesn't veto, the Supreme Court can still banish it back to the darkest pits of Hades where it came from for violating the First Amendment.
I won't deny that is possibly the case, but do you really want to leave something like this to chance and just
hope the Supreme Court sees sense at the last minute?
Is that a risk with taking?
Personally, it isn't.
The pro-bill sponsorship listing on Wikipedia contains a vast number of entertainment organisations from Comcast and Time Warner to Marvel. These are big companies with deep pockets and are specialists at lobbying. Our only chance is contacting everyone we can, as much as we can, however we can.
This is not something where we can afford to just sit back and hope a hero will swoop in and save the day.
Also note on that list that Nintendo, EA and Sony have had their names removed. What most fail to notice is that all three of the above are members of ESA (Entertainment Software Alliance) which is very much still a supporter, which means that until they
explicitly state they are against the bill it still has their support. Why did they remove their names? To prevent the adverse publicity? That seems like a safe assumption, and one which means that the campaigning is clearly having an effect.
Let's not let up, America needs to hear how bad this could be.