Cory Doctorow Nails SOPA

[frahulettaes]

As only he can

I particularly liked this passage:

But the reality is that copyright legislation gets as far as it does precisely because it's not taken seriously by politicians. This is why, on one hand, Canada has had Parliament after Parliament introduce one awful copyright bill after another, but on the other hand, Parliament after Parliament has failed to actually vote on each bill. It's why SOPA, a bill composed of pure stupid and pieced together molecule-by-molecule into a kind of "Stupidite 250" normally only found in the heart of newborn star,* had its rushed-through SOPA hearings adjourned midway through the Christmas break: so that lawmakers could get into a vicious national debate over an important issue, unemployment insurance.

*emphasis mine.

At which point I burst out laughing. Read the whole thing, it's pointed and deconstructive but in that new way that Gibson and Doctorow are so good at.

Stupidite 250 is so totally my new thing.

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[rattlecatcher.livejournal.com]

Stupidite 250 is powerful stuff. My office replaced the coffee with it (those crystals are shiny) and everyone remarked on how much stupider things were, and then proceeded to take it to eleven.