- From: Steven Rowat <steven_rowat@sunshine.net>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:59:11 -0800
- To: public-webpayments@w3.org
On 1/14/12 8:31 AM, Manu Sporny wrote: > On Monday, we would switch the site to serve that page as the landing > page from January 16th 2012 through January 19th 2012. Any objections? > > -- manu Hi Manu, Thank you; I had been following SOPA to some degree but that Wikipedia page reference you included made a lot of things more clear. I have an observation about your proposed course: SOPA is a bad thing and should be killed; but the problems of the web that it fumblingly attempts to solve -- unfair distribution of money for intellectual property -- are, IMO, exactly what the web-payments group will solve if a level-playing-field model can be made to work for easy payment transfers. This leads the thought that the work of the group -- as evidenced by that stunningly productive and interesting discussion posted from the teleconference for January 13th -- is more important than a sideline to fight SOPA. If SOPA goes through of course it will be bad; but it's being fought by large corporate and NGO entities and even if it goes through it will be challenged in court. In other words, I think it's a red herring for this group. Sure, put up a page to show support. But don't spend much time on it. The real way to fight it is to just keep doing what you're doing, and and get a real functioning alternative in place. Steven Rowat
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