TYT: Reddit Clobbers Rep. Ryan Into Opposing SOPA Publicly

[ihavenobias]

Reddit got Congressman Paul Ryan to publicly oppose the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/120110/did-the-internet-defeat-paul-ryan

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120109/09111417345/rep-paul-ryan-comes-out-forcefully-against-sopa-after-reddit-pumps-up-opposing-candidate.shtml

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[think]

1. Kicking for a free and open internet. Some links to action, info and congressional positions:

List of Congress members both against SOPA and those for it:

http://www.sopaopera.org/

For information and additional actions please check out AmericanCensorship.org. Make sure to scroll down for the info:

http://americancensorship.org/

[EC]

2. So this is the bill his handlers will let him show his

moderate creds on? He can't get reelected here now that he's shown how extreme right he is. Many here voted for him because they thought he was moderate. No more and this won't help.

[AverageJoe90]

6. Same thing for Bachmann, Issa and the Pauls too, IMO. nt

[slay]

3. SOPA is a much bigger threat to the internet - and freedom of speech - than most people know

it must not be allowed to pass. i'm glad Cenk is covering this - almost all other media refuse to even talk about it - like there is a media blackout around it even!

[SemperEadem]

9. the media wants it to be able to shut down bloggers, most likely

it's not like they like the added competition from those who don't have their press credentials.

[Thav]

4. Do not piss off the Internet

It may be the last thing you do.

No other force has the ability to mobilize and organize so many people so quickly and so decisively.

Remember that little event called the Arab Spring? Yeah, the internet had a part in it

[20score]

5. K&R!

[i_sometimes]

7. He learned when the Narwhal Bacon's!

Still a rat bastard though.

[SemperEadem]

8. Ryan says that now

when the vote comes up, he'll vote for it if the kock brothers tell him to.