{"id":1833,"date":"2012-01-21T18:30:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T23:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2012-01-21T18:30:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T23:30:48","slug":"bill-maher-on-sopa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=1833","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher on SOPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;I know that they&#8217;re saying that apparently this bill would somehow infringe on free speech. <strong>I didn&#8217;t read the bill<\/strong>. I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t know if anybody who has even read the bill could predict that. But it seems like it might be a red herring because people just want to steal. Because they can. You know, <strong>I call it Caucasian looting<\/strong>. And just because you&#8217;re sitting at your computer in your pajama bottoms doesn&#8217;t mean doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re not stealing&#8221; &#8211; <em>Bill Maher on January 20th, 2012 episode of &#8220;Real Time&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently he thinks everyone that opposed this law wants &#8220;free sh*t&#8221;, even after having admitted he hasn&#8217;t read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/billtext.xpd?bill=h112-3261\" target=\"blank\">the bill<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Dismissive, knee jerk generalizations in no way address the concerns brought forward by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.net-coalition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/NC-SOPA-and-PIPA-Company-Letter-1.pdf\" target=\"blank\">NetCoalition<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.net-coalition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/consumer-letter-on-SOPA-final-1.pdf\" target=\"blank\">Consumers Federation Of America<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.net-coalition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/ACLU-Statement-to-HJC-SOPA-11-16-11-1.pdf\" target=\"blank\">ACLU<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I guess he didn&#8217;t bother to read their statement either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I know that they&#8217;re saying that apparently this bill would somehow infringe on free speech. I didn&#8217;t read the bill. I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t know if anybody who has even read the bill could predict that. But it seems like it might be a red herring because people just want to steal. Because they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7],"tags":[119,187,508,884,909],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}