{"id":25575,"date":"2012-01-19T08:38:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T15:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/19\/the-revolving-door-between-congress-and-industry.html"},"modified":"2012-01-19T21:15:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T04:15:41","slug":"the-revolving-door-between-congress-and-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/19\/the-revolving-door-between-congress-and-industry.html","title":{"rendered":"The revolving door between Congress and Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Dodd is particularly disappointing, as Greenwald points out &#8212; but looking at some of the normally-seen-as-good-guys carrying Big Media&#39;s water on SOPA\/PIPA is &#8230; dismaying, to say the least.  #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%2Fmedia.salon.com%2F2012%2F01%2FScreen-shot-2012-01-18-at-8.48.27-AM-150x150.png' 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:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/01\/18\/chris_dodds_paid_sopa_crusading\/singleton\/'>Chris Dodd\u2019s paid SOPA crusading<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tChris Dodd, 3-decade senator who vowed not to lobby, is now the top paid advocate for an Internet censorship bill\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Dodd is particularly disappointing, as Greenwald points out &#8212; but looking at some of the normally-seen-as-good-guys carrying Big Media&#39;s water on SOPA\/PIPA is &#8230; dismaying, to say the least. #ddtb Embedded Link Chris Dodd\u2019s paid SOPA crusading Chris Dodd, 3-decade senator who vowed not to lobby, is now the top paid advocate for an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/19\/the-revolving-door-between-congress-and-industry.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The revolving door between Congress and Industry&#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":[106,35,79,9],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-media-intellectual-property","category-politics-law","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25524,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/more-sopapipa-commentary.html","url_meta":{"origin":25575,"position":0},"title":"More SOPA\/PIPA commentary","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 18-Jan-12 11:54am","format":false,"excerpt":"In this case, it's from +Wil Wheaton , where he does the take-down of the asinine Chris Dodd press release from yesterday that I meant to do but couldn't have done so well.It's worth repeating the quote from the top of his post:_\u201cWhy is it that when Republicans and Democrats\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25522,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/more-on-the-defense-of-sopa-and-pipa.html","url_meta":{"origin":25575,"position":1},"title":"More on the defense of SOPA and PIPA","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 18-Jan-12 10:44am","format":false,"excerpt":"(Don't they sound like evil pixies?)Yet another nice article here on the two bills, debunking a number of the defenses made of them. #ddtb Embedded Link An Updated Analysis: Why SOPA & PIPA Are A Bad Idea, Dangerous & Unnecessary | Techdirt Okay. 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