The graphic tells it all as the representatives cave against relentless tech based pressure.
Now can we please have the politicians tell the buggy whip manufacturers to go take a hike over their proposal for us all to carry buggy whips in our cars. it not the government’s job to protect out-moded business models.
Both SOPA and PIPA have been indefinitely postponed. We will continue to take updates about lawmakers atsopa@propublica.org
As popular Internet sites shut down or blacked out in protest on Wednesday, users flooded our SOPA Opera news application and inboxes to let us know what their members of Congress were saying about SOPA.
When we first launched SOPA Opera, few members in Congress – besides the bills’ co-sponsors and its initial opponents – had made their opinion known on the proposed laws to regulate the Internet. That changed on Wednesday. Responses from constituents and Congressional staffers kept us busy updating the site past midnight.
The response was overwhelmingly one-sided against the bill. This graphic shows the likely vote tallies for SOPA Opera at the beginning of the day Wednesday and the likely tallies as of early Thursday.
