SOPA - Don't Just Protest
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by Tony Cartalucci January 18, 2012 - The entire reason why SOPA's authors and supporters have the money, influence, and power to set draconian bills like it forward in the first place is because of our daily patronizing of their corporations and the goods and services they provide. SOPA supporters include the US Chamber of Commerce, the MPAA, and many of the mega-corporations Americans, and indeed people around the world, support on a daily basis. The key to stopping SOPA and the watered down feigned "concession" that will surely follow it is to undermine the unwarranted power and influence of the corporations and financiers backing it in the first place. If Americans withdrew their support from these corporations, if theaters were left empty, if Pepsi and Coke were left collecting dust on the shelves of an empty Walmart, bills like SOPA would not exist, permit by yourself have a chance to be passed into regulation. Below is just one letter signed by just one group of these corporations and organizations. Boycott, set out out of business, and replace these corporations with local alternatives. Sponsors of this letter in support of "rouge sites legislation" include : 3M Alliance of Automobile Manufactures American Apparel and Footwear Associations Autodesk Inc. Bose Corporation Broadcast Music Inc (BMI) Caterpillar CBS Council of Fashion Designers of America Electronic Arts (EA) Ford Motor Company GlaxoSmith Kline Harley-Davidson Motor Company Johnson Johnson L'Oreal Macmillian Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Countrywide Basketball Association (NBA) Countrywide Football League (NFL) NBC Universal News Corporation (Fox News) NHL Nike Nintendo of America Oakley Pfizer PGA of America Philip Morris Global Reebok Rite Aid Rolex Rosetta Stone Software Information Industry Association Sony Dow Chemical McGraw-Hill Timberland Walt Disney Tiffany Co. Time Warner Toshiba US Chamber of Commerce Ultimate Battling Championship (UFC) Universal Music Group Viacom Wal-Mart Warner Music Group World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Xerox Corporation Zippo Manufacturing If you can't live without the endless crass torrent of "bread and circus" as well as trinkets provided by the above mentioned supporters of this business-fascist agenda - the literal crafting and backing of legislation of, by, and for corporations -you don't should have the freedom you believe yourself entitled to. There is not one corporation detailed above that modern society could not live without and in many cases replace with decentralized, superior local alternatives. Freedom is not simply voicing your opposition or choosing reps to do so on your behalf. Freedom is also about the responsibility to keep in check the creation of unwarranted power and influence garnered from your daily payments in attention, money, time, and energy to corporations that would seek to impose their will upon modern society using the very mechanisms of governance designed entirely for the people's benefit. Id the resource of power behind bills like SOPA, and indeed many of the government policies wrecking our modern society, miring us in endless war, and leaving us in economic destitution. Boycott them , and replace them . We cannot be blamed for the greed and depravity of the global business-financier elite, but we can be blamed for fueling their megalomania on a daily basis.