Congressman Lamar Smith, SOPA Author, Is a Copyright Violator

Have there been any journalists with enough temerity to challenge Congressman Smith about his violations of his own law?

Well right now there’s a whole legion of people clamoring for a response from Smith about all this. That’s about as much as anyone can really do. He fixed the website before anyone had a good chance to do anything about it under current law. 

No mainstream journalists will touch it because they are too cowardly to challenge their parent companies who support the legislation. It might be worth flooding their Twitter feeds with taunts until they change their minds:

@chucktodd @savannahguthrie @anncurry @nmoralesnbc @joenbc @morningmika @lukerussert @kellyo @CNBC @carlquintanilla @ricksantelli @jimcramer @mariabartiromo @JakeTapper @dianesawyer @GStephanopolous @maddow @edshow @lawrence @thelastword @hardball @oreillyfactor @seanhannity @gretawire @foxandfriends @megynkelly @FoxBusiness @LouDobbsNews @TeamCavuto @LizClaman @ericbolling 
Obviously, there are many other targets as well.  You can tweet Lamar Smith at @LamarSmithTX21. 

mother ****** pay the copyright or we’ll never do it

Finding a Republican hypocrite is like going to a shopping mall to see if there are pennies in the fountain:  it’s too easy!  Of the list of Republicans (and quite a few Democrats too) holding elected office who are hypocrites, you can save time by listing instead those for whom there is no (substantial) evidence that they are hypocrites.  To h*ll with all of them!

The issue there is that most of your mainstream journalists, as it were, are all wrapped up in content providers that support SOPA. You can decided how much of a conspiracy you think is going on there. 

Yes, he probably is in violation of even the laws currently on the books, let alone future laws, but what the author apparently doesn’t “get” is legislators exempt themselves from laws they pass, so he cannot be officially classified a scofflaw even though he may well be one.

They don’t have to adhere to any of the civil rights laws they passed, either. I’m surprised they haven’t exempted themselves from having to pay taxes.

corporate Government Corp-vernment controlled media at it’s best.
Same as when = journalists puppet’s don’t ask politicians about corruption from lobbyists bribery.

More … “”conflict of interests”" ……. rather than “”conspiracy”"
The fact’s are there.. without needing to wildly conclude conspiracy.

If PIPA and SOPA are applied only to non-USA domains, why shouldn’t it be enforced for only USA owned content companies? Why should USA internet companies work for UK, French, and Japanese corporations?

EMI – owned by EMI Group, a UK Corporation
Sony Music Entertainment — owned by Sony, a Japanese Corporation
Universal Music Group — owned by Vivendi, a French Corporation
Warner Music Group owned by Access Industries,  a USA Corporation

There
is no backbone for American journalists anymore these days – I mean “mainstream”
they are worst then journalists in communist china, they are “inbed” with
government, say whatever pleasure government to keep their jobs… looks, there is
more than 9% unemployment rate everywhere, plus, all those journalists are
liberal arts major, no hard skills like math, computer language, how dear you
blame them? They are human being, they have mortgage like you, they have
children like you, can you blame them not tell the truth?

Federal Law exempts Congressional communications from classification as “commercial use.”  They can use any “personal use” licensed items.  I will post the cite when I find it.  I raised this issue with my congressman after he sent a flyer with a photo that I recognised from a stock shot catalogue, but with no attribution.

You can get foreign websites to report on it, and the companies who back SOPA can’t do anything about that

Lamar Smith is a douchebag and must be removed from office,