On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Mike Linksvayer <[email protected]>wrote:
> I ask this list because I know a number of activists working on this > issue are on it, Guilty as charged > and a ping on twitter sounded correct to me > https://twitter.com/#!/jsb/status/146688115472465920 -- "seems like if > this is a legislative fight, someone should be counting votes" > One issue is that, as near as I can tell, there are a lot of votes that aren't totally public. We [EFF] are asking people to call and write their Congressmembers, but even when they (1) get a response and (2) send it back to us, it's not always clear. We know who the sponsors of the bill are, and we know the 10 Congressmembers who have signed a letter against it. More have come out explicitly, and more have indicated in form letter responses that they're at least skeptical of the bill as written, but what we have is far from a complete picture. > > I have no idea if this person on Quora (which is now also a ~blogging > platform, apparently) is well informed, but it is the attempt at SOPA > vote counting I could find, and doesn't look good > > http://www.quora.com/Craig-Montuori/Politics-201-Counting-Votes-and-Committee-Markups > > http://www.quora.com/Craig-Montuori/Politics-202-SOPA-OPEN-Act-and-Game-Theory-as-Applied-to-Politics All the above said, these numbers look more or less correct. It's going to be very important that as many people as possible, and ideally people who live in the districts of Congressmembers who are on the Judiciary committee and are neither co-sponsors nor confirmed opponents, to call in and register their opposition. > > Just slightly older, but also interesting > http://www.quora.com/Craig-Montuori/Dear-Internet-How-Id-Stop-SOPA Thanks for the links! > > Just curious, > Mike > I appreciate the curiosity. This is probably the closest I've followed the legislative process on any particular bill, and I'm learning a lot. Thanks, Parker > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > -- parker higgins san francisco, ca http://parkerhiggins.net gmail / gchat: [email protected] twitter / identi.ca: @thisisparker skype: thisisparker please consider software freedom before reading this e-mail on a proprietary platform
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