{"id":23780,"date":"2011-11-16T09:51:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T16:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/16\/we-stand-together-to-protect-innovation.html"},"modified":"2011-11-16T21:24:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T04:24:13","slug":"we-stand-together-to-protect-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/16\/we-stand-together-to-protect-innovation.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;We stand together to protect innovation&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The companies listed all have a vested interest in seeing SOPA scrapped (or significantly re-written), but their interest parallels everyone else&#39;s: that creating an extrajudicial shortcut for folks to black out or financially cripple sites they claim are infringing on copyright not only bypasses the already-draconian DMCA, but bypasses that act&#39;s safe harbor provisions, making everyone effectively responsible for anything that happens on their site. <\/p>\n<p>In theory, a simple blog like mine wouldn&#39;t be an issue.  I monitor what people post here in comments pretty closely and reasonably.  But SOPA doesn&#39;t worry about reasonability.  If US Bank decided that some of the statements in my highest-comment post had proprietary information (comments from current or past US Bank employees), or simply didn&#39;t like that post being on the air, SOPA gives them a means to black me out, without recourse or notice.  Lovely, eh? #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fcraphound.com%2Fimages%2FNYTImes_111114_v2.pdf-pages.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/11\/16\/internet-giants-place-full-pag.html'>Internet giants place full-page anti-SOPA ad in NYT &#8211; Boing Boing<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tInternet giants place full-page anti-SOPA ad in NYT. By Cory Doctorow at 6:13 am Wednesday, Nov 16. Congress may not want to hear from opponents of the Stop Online Piracy Act at today&#39;s hearing, b&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The companies listed all have a vested interest in seeing SOPA scrapped (or significantly re-written), but their interest parallels everyone else&#39;s: that creating an extrajudicial shortcut for folks to black out or financially cripple sites they claim are infringing on copyright not only bypasses the already-draconian DMCA, but bypasses that act&#39;s safe harbor provisions, making &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/16\/we-stand-together-to-protect-innovation.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;We stand together to protect innovation&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3,79,9],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging","category-media-intellectual-property","category-politics-law","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9888,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/15\/spam_and_yeggs_4.html","url_meta":{"origin":23780,"position":0},"title":"Spam and yeggs","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 15-Oct-06 7:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Rrg. 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