BOR: Congressman Lloyd Doggett Issues Statement Opposing #SOPA

Over on Ars Technica, Eric Goldman has a solid explanation of why OPEN is a better starting point than SOPA:

Unlike SOPA's disgustingly blatant rent-seeking,which was such an over-the-top abuse of the legislative process that itdid not (and could not) support a principled or even intelligentconversations about it, OPEN provides a useful starting point for asensible conversation that could actually lead to acceptablecompromises.

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OPEN is a comparatively svelte 18 pages focused mostly on onecore concept, compared to SOPA's 78-page monstrosity that advanced about a dozen different substantive proposals. I can't tell you the number of times I've seen very smart people stymied to keep all of SOPA's movingparts separate, and the failure to do so meant that they were conflating different parts of the statute in ways that prevented productivediscussion.

Go read the rest here, and thanks again to Congressman Doggett for opposing SOPA.