In the past few years we’ve been seeing a problem with our
rights being taken away. This not only
applies to Americans but, because of the arrogance of the US government, it affects
the rest of the world too.
For far too long the politicians in Washington have been the
bitch of corporations. This problem is 2
fold. First politicians get their
funding for campaigns primarily from corporations and second many politicians
have too much personally invested in corporations to be able to stay objective
and work for the common citizen. Even
with the laws and regulation forcing them to remove themselves from conflicts
of interests it is obvious that while there may not be an immediate conflict of
interest that many of the legislation they pass will benefit them later. IE While Senator A may not currently have any
financial interest in industry Y some legislation that sets up Y to be more
profitable years down the track can benefit them after they are free from conflict
of interest regulations.
So one of the things we see going on is more and more rights
being taken away from real people and more rights being given to fake people,
IE corporations. For example it is far
too easy for a corporation to make an IP claim on a real person and instead of
due process the common person has their rights restricted. False IP claims by corporations have no down
side for the said corporation and it is on the real person to fight to get
their rights back. Each legislation passed
makes it more and more easy for fake people to take away more and more of the
rights of real people.
Take the situation with MegaUpload.com. The site has been shut down. Millions of users are denied a service they’ve
subscribed to because of these anti-piracy laws that have been passed. UMG last month force YouTube to take down the
“MegaUpload Mega Song” video. This despite
the fact that every artist in the video signed an agreement to do this
video. UMG, a fake person, seems to be
having a multiple personality disorder episode.
When brought to court, by MegaUpload, UMG claims that the wrong UMG is
being brought to court. MegaUpload it
being forced to jump through hoops to find out on what grounds UMG was able to
remove the Video from YouTube.
This is akin to McDonald’s coming to your house and taking
your dinner away from you because they believe you stole it but you were eating
macaroni and cheese with a glass of milk.
Then McDonald’s just shrugging their shoulders when you ask why they
took your dinner.
Legislation like PIPA and SOPA make these powers by fake
people even stronger. Much like NDAA
gives you no recourse when being wrongly accused. These “anti-piracy”
legislations just open the door wider for corporations to step on anything they
believe is not in their best interest. It doesn't matter whether or not they have any actual grounds for the IP
claim being made. You as a real person can do shit fuck all about it in most
cases unless you want to spend our life savings on lawyers which will probably
get you no were in the end.
Speak up, make yourselves heard. Call your congressmen. Pay attention to what they vote for and
against. Every time they vote against
real people’s rights in favour of fake people’s rights hold them
accountable. Honestly fake people don’t
serve in the armed service, don’t go to jail, don’t die, don’t get hungry and
with much of the legislation, going through Washington, are not accountable for anything they
do. For fuck sake with limited liability
legislation fake people can’t even be sued for hurting you or someone you
love.
Is this the type of “conservative America” you want to live
in? An America where your rights are slowly taken away making you numb to further changes.
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