Comments on: SOPA Support Drying Up As Gaming Companies Feel The Heat /tech/2011/12/sopa-support-drying-up-as-gaming-companies-feel-the-heat/ Sat, 15 Jul 2017 19:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymous /tech/2011/12/sopa-support-drying-up-as-gaming-companies-feel-the-heat/#comment-4745 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:18:00 +0000 /?p=9705&post_type=tech#comment-4745 Thankfully, Microsoft had backed off on this earlier, but as soon as you throw Anonymous in the mix, aww man…

]]> By: Soulofthebleak /tech/2011/12/sopa-support-drying-up-as-gaming-companies-feel-the-heat/#comment-4744 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:10:00 +0000 /?p=9705&post_type=tech#comment-4744 Dunno if Sony did it out of a sudden desire to improve PR or to protect their own asses from getting hacked (again) but as a guy who’s been a gamer since before he was old enough for public school (fyi I’m a week from turning 26) its damn good to hear that the big three have stopped supporting this mess of a legislation.

That and now that Mitt Romney has taken his own stance against it SOPA is really in trouble. One of its defenses is that unless you use the net a lot you might not even know about this. Having a Republican frontrunner oppose it means that Obama has to take a stance and soon and, more importantly, the big news networks like FOX, CBS, and so on can’t pretend to ignore it much longer.

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