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You need to go to the press with this conversation ASAP.
by scrod 15y ago
You need to go to the press with this conversation ASAP.
- weaksauce 15y agoIs it legal to record phone calls in new york without informing the other party? This would be an excellent sound bite for the national news if so.
- cypherpunks01 15y agoIt seems that New York is a "one party consent" state, so it is legal to record phone calls without informing the other party. Someone should do this! http://www.aapsonline.org/judicial/telephone.htm http://www.aapsonline.org/judicial/telephone.htm etc.
- Udo 15y agoIf the past months are any indication, no news organization is interested in reporting anything remotely relating to SOPA (except maybe as a short piece to promote it as "the legislation that will stop piracy for good" and that anyone who opposes this is a criminal). SOPA did not get any media coverage, and I'd be surprised if flippant comments made by an anonymous staffer changed that.
- ojbyrne 15y agoFalse. Yesterday I posted a link to an article from Fortune discussing the SOPA "battle." I'm (obviously) anti-SOPA, but the level of hysteria is somewhat annoying.
- ojbyrne 15y agoHere's another: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/us/anti-piracy-bill-sopa-by-lamar-smith-gets-texas-pushback.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/us/anti-piracy-bill-sopa-b...
- rabble 15y agoI mean turning off the internet would put a huge dent in piracy. It's kind of true.
- inmygarage 15y agoThe call wasn't recorded and I did not get the person's name. I took clear notes and asked him to repeat that the Senator is in favor of "censoring" illegal content, which he confirmed. The way he said "censor" really made my skin crawl - it was so pompous. Gillibrand's people were nice, fyi. I asked twice if he had spoken with any constituents over the phone who support the bill and he confirmed twice that he had not. But still, I am not a journalist and didn't plan to blog about this except that I was so shocked by the replies I got. Surely people who work the phones at these offices must assume that everything they say could end up "on the internet"?
- jerf 15y agoIt's OK, a half-decent journalist wouldn't want to take your word for it anyhow, and would hopefully make their own calls to verify. Just go for it.
- pbhjpbhj 15y agoSo, where can we find this mythical journalist then ... I'm kidding, I think.
- dhimes 15y agoThe way he said "censor" really made my skin crawl Maybe, just maybe, the guy on the phone is also against the bill, in fact is sickened by it, and wants you to be angry and take action. How's that for optimism?
- steve-howard 15y agoThat's already about as much action as we can all do, unless you've got a couple million lying around.
- walexander 15y agoMy guess is he was being facetious. I'm going to assume this guy has been picking up the phone on this issue non-stop for the last week and is tired of hearing from opponents. He was probably just entertaining himself.
- beagle3 15y agoMost of the press is happy to support SOPA. They've been mostly mum about it so far, with a few minor exceptions. They're not working for you; they're working for the advertisers.
- marshray 15y agoA lot of the "press" are the same large multinational corporations that are pushing SOPA.