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After the cyberspace blackout, Republican Party nominees concur SOPA sucks

Paul Anderson by Paul Anderson
January 20, 2012 - Updated on February 23, 2012
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southrepubdebate343Accompanying the objections Wednesday that witnessed tons of sites go dark in resistance to national anti-piracy legislation, the four remaining Republican presidential nominees stated the House of Representatives* bill would constitute a disaster for freedom on the Internet.

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During a debate in South Carolina Thursday, once Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and Texas representative Ron Paul altogether said they did not back up the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

CNN moderator John King mentioned in his question to the campaigners that CNN’s parent company Time Warner

“says we need a law like this because some of its products — movies, programs and the like — are being ripped off online.”

The public debate hearing answered to that statement with loud boos.

“You have everybody who’s technologically advanced, including Google and YouTube and Facebook and all the folks, who say that this is totally going to mess up the Internet, and the bill in its current form is written very badly and leads to a range of censorship that is totally unacceptable,” Gingrich explained. “I favor freedom. And I think we have a patent office. We have copyright law. If a company finds it has been genuinely infringed upon, it has the right to sue.”

Romney concorded:

“I think he got it just about right. The truth of the matter is that the law is far too intrusively written, far too expansive, far too threatening to freedom of speech and movement of information across the Internet.”

Paul led even further, alleging that he was the

“first Republican to sign on with a host of Democrats to oppose this law.”

“This bill is not going to pass, but watch out for the next one,” the libertarian congressman added. “I am pleased that the attitude has sort of mellowed up here because Republicans, unfortunately, have been on the wrong side of this issue.”

While Santorum concorded that the bill went “too far,” he was far less outspoken about his defense of freedom on the Net.

“The Internet is not a free zone where anybody can do anything they want to do and trample the rights of other people,” he said. “The idea that you have businesses in this country and the government has no role to protect the intellectual property of people that have those rights in this country from people overseas pirating them and then selling them back into this country, it’s great. I’m for free, but I’m not for people abusing the law.”

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