One analysis I read said that committee members often vote for things they oppose if it's clear that it'll pass even if they vote it down in order to curry favor with the committee chair for later, so it's possible that's why it passed unanimously. Still disheartening, though.
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Adi Kamdar <[email protected]> wrote: > Kinda bummed that Al Franken supported it... > > -Adi > > > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Fred Benenson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The consensus seems to be that it'll die in session, so it feels more like >> posturing, but still very scary. >> >> ~ ~ ~ >> thoughts / http://fredbenenson.com/blog >> work / http://kickstarter.com >> sights / http://flickr.com/fcb >> sounds / http://www.last.fm/user/mecredis >> status / http://twitter.com/mecredis >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Kat Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Note that it's only gotten past the Judiciary Committee--it's has not >>> been made into law yet. Still, it is pretty disheartening to see it >>> get out of committee and especially to see that it was unanimous. >>> >>> -Kat >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Danny Piccirillo >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > I'm sad about this so i'm spamming it >>> > about. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/11/case-against-coica >>> > For those of you on Reddit and/or Identica >>> > >>> http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/e88zc/coica_just_passed_reddit_anonymous_internet_at/ >>> > http://identi.ca/notice/58871279 >>> > -- >>> > .danny >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Your donations keep Wikipedia online: http://donate.wikimedia.org/en >>> Wikimedia, Press: [email protected] * Personal: [email protected] >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mindspillage * (G)AIM:mindspillage >>> IRC(freenode,OFTC):mindspillage * identi.ca:mindspillage * phone:ask >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > -- Alec Story Cornell University Biological Sciences, Computer Science 2012
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