Rackspace: SOPA "Is a Deeply Flawed Piece of Legislation" 213
hypnosec writes "Cloud-based hosting service provider Rackspace has joined the ever expanding list of companies that are opposed to the U.S. Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). In a blog post, Rackspace CEO Lanham Napier said that the controversial bill, which will get its final vote before the House Judiciary Committee, will do more harm than good, punishing innocent users in the process. 'The SOPA bill, as it stands, is a deeply flawed piece of legislation. It is bad for anyone who uses the Internet, including Rackspace, the more than 160,000 business customers that we serve, and the tens of millions of retail customers that they serve. It is bad for job creation and innovation,' Napier wrote."
Re:What Would Happen... (Score:3, Informative)
See, this is where the whole "the U.S. says corporations are people" meme falls apart. Level 3, Verizon and Google aren't people who can suddenly say "fuck this, we are going to the Carribean." They are nominally accountable to shareholders (who are people, or are institutions like CalPERS who help people) who would raise a metric shitfit if these businesses suddenly said "we are thriving now, we will probably still thrive after, but we think it is time to scrap everything." And that will land some decisionmakers in jail.
A nice change for Rackspace (Score:3, Informative)
I remember back in 2004 when Rackspace turned over entire hard drives to the FBI that contained data for Indymedia websites as part of a terrorism investigation. The FBI only wanted copies of logs, but Rackspace I suppose wanted to go the extra mile.
http://jebba.blagblagblag.org/?p=175
Re:Ugh (Score:5, Informative)
One of them is the "We the People Act": http://www.independentamericanparty.org/2011/09/1949/ That is strait from the horses mouth.
See section 3. It boils down to forbidding the US supreme court from hearing cases on the constitutionality of state laws based on religion, abortion or sexual orientation discrimination. If it were in effect, each state could ban abortion in violation of roe vs wade or make homosexuality a felony. States could ban atheists, muslims, jews, mormons, catholics or even protestants from serving in public office without federal challenge among many many other backwards theocratic and anti-constitutional edicts.
I believe he has at least one other proposed law with similar effects.
Re:Nearly all laws are (Score:4, Informative)
I haven't seen any detailed legislation, but assuming it does what it says it does, it would be nice if those against SOPA could put some weight behind this approach instead.
Re:Doesn't matter, the fix is in (Score:4, Informative)
If only that was true!
Marxism is a textbook example of hijacking a big name by politicians. Marxism has never been implemented by any "communist" country. Only one village in China has ran on Marx's most important principle - "the means of production belong to the people producing the wealth" (i.e. the people working in a fab are the owners of the fab, they are the shareholders) and it was a resounding success (google "China richest village").
Again - none of this self proclaimed hypocritical communist states ever implemented the most basic principle of Marxism. Marx was "communist" in exactly the same way Wagner and Nietzsche were "nazis" if you get the analogy.
Supposedly educated people in the west have no clue of what Marxism is. People don't even know the basics that are described in the Wiki article. They are forever brainwashed to reject without a second thought anything that is "communist" even though Marx claimed that his socially responsible society will emerge first in a well developed western nation...
And BTW, wasn't there an article on /. from leading economy researchers from the west saying "Marx was not wrong after all"?