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Politico<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If either the U.S. Senate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Protect IP Act (PIPA) & the U.S. House\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) become law, political blogs such as Red Mass Group [conservative] & Blue Mass Group [liberal] will cease to exist,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d wrote a blogger at Red Mass Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n Some have asserted that the controversial measures would criminalize pages and blogs that link to foreign websites dedicated to online piracy. In particular, this has concerned search engines like Google<\/a>, which could face massive liability if some form of the bill passes, some say.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Of course, restrictions of results provided by Internet search engines amount to just that: prior restraint of their free expression of future results. Google and others, under SOPA, are told what they can or can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t publish before they publish it. Kill. The. Bill,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d conservative blogger Neil Stevens argued at RedState<\/a>.<\/p>\n Liberals had their own spin on it<\/a>, cheering on the fact that corporate support for SOPA was starting to subside.<\/p>\n In particular, GoDaddy, a domain registration firm, suffered a spectacularly bad round of PR when it came out in support of the measures. But after a grass-roots campaign to boycott the firm, driven by Reddit, an online community, and others, GoDaddy reversed course and renounced its support.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Some good news on the SOPA front: Its corporate base of supporters is starting to crumble,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d David Dayden wrote at Firedoglake<\/a>. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153GoDaddy is not alone. Scores of law firms are requesting their names be removed from the Judiciary Committee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s official list of SOPA supporters.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n In the blogosphere, the trajectory of the bill seemed set \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that it is destined for failure if the pressure of the online community is kept up.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The dynamic is clear. Once SOPA \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and its Senate counterpart, Protecting IP Act, or PIPA \u00e2\u20ac\u201d became high-profile among the Internet community, the lazy endorsements from companies and various hangers-on became toxic. And now, those supporters are scrambling, hollowing out the actual support for the bill. Suddenly, a bill with \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwidespread\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 corporate support doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have much support at all,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dayden said.<\/p>\n Conservatives took a slightly different tact, though with similar disdain for the anti-piracy measures.<\/p>\n Indeed, blogger Erick Erickson said that he would encourage a primary for any Republican who supports the bill.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I love Marsha Blackburn. She is a delightful lady and a solidly conservative member of Congress. And I am pledging right now that I will do everything in my power to defeat her in her 2012 reelection bid\u00e2\u20ac\u009d due to her co-sponsorship for SOPA, Erickson wrote at RedState<\/a>. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Congress has proven it does not understand the Internet. Perhaps they will understand brute strength against them at the ballot box. If members of Congress do not pull their name from co-sponsorship of SOPA, the left and right should pledge to defeat each and every one of them.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Politico By Tim Mak The conservative and liberal blogospheres are unifying behind opposition to Congress\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Stop Online Piracy Act, with right-leaning bloggers arguing their very existence could be wiped out if the anti-piracy bill passes….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[344,232,7],"tags":[4426,4433,4431,328,4430,201,4432,4428,4425,3713,4423,4424,4429,4427],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBy Tim Mak
\nThe conservative and liberal blogospheres are unifying behind opposition to Congress\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Stop Online Piracy Act<\/a>, with right-leaning bloggers arguing their very existence could be wiped out if the anti-piracy bill passes.<\/p>\n