It would be great for everyone to understand the internet at the levels we do, but alas, most do not and thats why we, as a scoiety, do need to invoke something to work for them.

I understand that many people were vagrantly misled into what this bill (SOPA) was actually about. I saw many of my FB friends posting pics that sugested it would ‘censor’ what they could say in their posts along with many other variations of the lie (mainly spread by illicit users who could see this WOULD put a drastic hold on their ability to de-fraud and infect regular user machines).

While I agree that some things were a bit extrenusous; it was not as cut and dried as ‘..to shut down any website without proper trial of criminality.’ There would be a process for “questionable” websites and activity. However, the power to shut access down to BLATANT web sites selling illegal items,software, etc, was in place AND if you look outside of the internet this happens in business as well. For instance, if I were to try and open a business that BLATANTLY sold illegal goods and/or services (IE perscriptions without doctors); I would be shut down then given a chance to defend myself. They would NOT allow me to continue to operate while the trial proceeded. This was the same implemntation that would have become in effect for web-business within/to the United States.

As far as ‘censorship’ of signal. Well, I cant wait for SOMEONE to start doing this. While I feel it is mostly up to the user to provide their own protections, my 60+ yr old mother is not so adept at the internet as you or I. I have already combated ‘MyCandianPharmacy’ last year to save her HSA account from being drained completly! The monitoring of code acorss transmission would have made the way they ‘build’ their site ineffective. Being that so many folk fell for the lie that this bill included insured that, for the next year at least, many other users like my mom will be running into websites that mean them nothing but harm.

As far as NDAA being signed, this was not so bad excpet for the amendment attached by Jason Chaffets and Orin Hatch. This bill has existed for over 40 years, but the amendment attached was new and a ploy by the republican party to get a peice of legislation in that SHOULD HAVE NEVER hit the table. As far as the ‘indefeinate detainment’ that is suggested by this bill, for enemy combatants, this is like giving them life with the possibility of parole. Iv read the billl and there are CONSTANT checks and reviews of said detainees. So alot of this bill was blown out of poportion as well.

You both inspire me. All is not lost. I and many others will keep fighting for the cause and issues you’ve raised. Thanks for all you’ve done.

Best – Soren.

I appeared before the Salt Lake City Council on Sept 21, 2010 thanking them for the platform of transparency already in place. I am so behind this initiative yet to be enacted. GO PETE!

Any chance this will be archived so some of us can listen in later?