Dont care if I get a banhammer for this, Bethesda should pull out of E3 unless they dont care about or support censonship, like Iran and China
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHOZcHkvkvs&feature=g-u&context=G259dffbFUAAAAAAABAA

There is a http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1334164-sopa-shelved-until-consensus-is-found/ in General Discussion.

I heard SOPA was stopped anyway but we all know SOPA isn't about piracy, it's about money and control.

SOPA was put on hold until LATER

lol google has a big black bar acrosss it and if you put your mouse over it it says "Tell Congress: Please don't censor the web!"

Who says Bethesda is against it.

profile picture perfect with statement.

Is this what that wiki blackout`s about?

Well i`m glad it`s been put off, but they may try again. Keep watch!

Well, no one stood up to support Australian gamers when we have had to fight censorship and the introduction of the most effective internet monitor and filter available today (the same one that China and North Korea are actually buying off us), so I actually consider that certain groups are only acting out of self-interest in the current stand.

I'm 98% sure Rudds netnanny never saw the light of day, and we have always had censorship for gaming, so it didn't get introduced in a high profile way.

But there is a SOPA thread in GD

The netnanny didn't, but the monitoring component did. Optus, Telstra and a couple of the others voluntarilly signed up for it, effectively placing those companies as the watchdogs for the security-intelligence and law enforcement agencies. If you access certain sites (which we aren't allowed to know about), or have suspicious or seditious 'net activity, you get reported.

Edit:

It was done as a 'memorandum of understanding', so laws didn't need to get passed to implement it, nor was it able to be debated in parliament. It has less constitutional or political validity than any of the laws passed by the Nazis in the 1930's....fact.

If large companies such as Bethesda did not attend E3 it would make a big difference to the SOPA fight.....however, I am doubtful that they would take a stance. *sigh*

Google is two faced in this. Don't censor the web? So why do you have so many blocked sites on your listings huh Google? Riddle me that. The bill will pass eventually. It is inevetible. It's all about money and any company making software will love it. Including Bethesda I'm sure.

I foresee a future where we will use dialup to connect to private servers to share information in the BBS style of old. How exciting.

I blame the pirates.

Not entirely.

Part of SOPA actually involves using the dns registrar to make websites unavailable to the whole world. Australia got firewalled yes, but that just made websites unavailable to Australians, meaning it's really just anm Australian problem which only Australians can fix through politics. SOPA actually intends to make certain websites unavailable to the whole world.

Which means it will be back, perhaps piggybacked onto something innocent sounding to disguise it.

My favorite page, Artige.no
Has been closed because of protesting against SOPA.
fffffffuuuuuuuuuu

Let's use that thread to discuss this important issue please.