# The SOPA debate is over **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 16, 2011, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sopa-debate-is-over/603153 "2011-11-16T18:45:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sopa-debate-is-over/603153/1 "2011-11-16T18:45:32Z")
[http://www.michaelcrook.org/2011/11/16/i-welcome-sopa/](http://www.michaelcrook.org/2011/11/16/i-welcome-sopa/) Okay, we’re done. The case by this blogger is just too compelling. We really should let the government block all privacy on the Internet. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sopa-debate-is-over/603153/2 "2011-11-16T21:06:30Z")
Privacy? Piracy? What? ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sopa-debate-is-over/603153/3 "2011-11-17T16:47:52Z")
It would be a lot funnier of congress were informed on this and would get the joke. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sopa-debate-is-over/603153/4 "2011-11-17T18:18:25Z")
[Visa is against it](http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111114/23145216770/house-judiciary-committee-sopa-hearings-stacked-5-to-1-favor-censoring-internet.shtml), MasterCard is for it. So have only MasterCard testify. Ergo, the whole credit card industry is for it. Right? Nice. 10 years ago Congress pretended to be fair. They’ve stopped even that now. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sopa-debate-is-over/603153/5 "2011-11-17T18:27:56Z")
Michael Crooks is the same guy that doesn’t believe rape is real and that women should fight their rapists to the death, or, failing that, kill themselves as soon as possible afterward in order to protect their virtue. Real? Fake? Who cares. I don’t have time for this moron. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sopa-debate-is-over/603153/6 "2011-11-18T06:02:17Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > [Visa is against it](http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111114/23145216770/house-judiciary-committee-sopa-hearings-stacked-5-to-1-favor-censoring-internet.shtml), MasterCard is for it. So have only MasterCard testify. Ergo, the whole credit card industry is for it. Right? > > Nice. > > 10 years ago Congress pretended to be fair. They’ve stopped even that now. At least Pelosi, Paul, and six other senators are against it. Perhaps congress is not 100% corrupted yet.