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- signed A Non-praticing Marine.
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Got fill up those prisons somehow. I get protecting IP, but damn.
Senators and representatives work out backroom deals to attach their pet measures to funding for things like food inspections and airport safety and then dare their colleagues to object.
This time around, one of the measures being crammed into the omnibus is a proposal from Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) to turn unauthorized commercial streaming of copyrighted material like an album on YouTube, a video clip on Twitch, or a song in an Instagram story into a felony offense with a possible prison sentence rather than a misdemeanor, according to Protocol. The text of the measure has not been publicly released yet, but it is expected to be broadly similar to past entertainment industry-backed attempts to criminalize unauthorized streaming, such as the provisions of the SOPA/PIPA bills in 2012 that sparked an unprecedented internet “blackout” protest or the Commercial Felony Streaming Act, which prompted Justin Bieber to say that its sponsor, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), should be “locked up.”
Tillis, the chairman of the Intellectual Property Subcommittee, was recently re-elected for another six-year term by a margin of less than 2% over his Democratic opponent. In the final stretch of his campaign, Tillis received a surge of campaign contributions from PACs affiliated with entertainment companies and trade groups that lobby Congress for aggressive copyright enforcement against internet users, including prison time for unauthorized streaming.
In the third and fourth quarters of 2020, Tillis’ campaign and leadership PAC received donations from PACs affiliated with the Motion Picture Association, Sony Pictures, ASCAP, Universal Music Group, Comcast & NBCUniversal, The Internet and Television Association, Salem Media Group, Warner Music, and others in the entertainment and cable industry that seek to suppress the unauthorized sharing of content. Many other entertainment industry PACs gave Tillis contributions earlier in the 2019-20 cycle, totaling well over $100,000, according to Federal Election Commission records. Executives of Fox Corporation, Sony Entertainment, Charter Communications, and CBS also made large donations to Tillis in the third quarter of this year.
Sony 
Bernie dropping truth bomb for the 1092090809th time. 
MSNBC on that corporate pivot 
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No on that other side you have people who protest against the cops and then call one when they need one, protest about climate change while littering, love to get each other cancelled because they got offended again, talk about social distancing then violate it 10x over, call someone a racist when they can’t produce an educated retort, inject hormones in their 3 year olds so they can transition, and think it’s child abuse for a parent to disagree with their 8 year old son claiming he is a girl.
Yep, fighting against climate change alright. They probably used a car to get to these protest zones too.
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then why did you bring it up?
It was a statement similar to how you are watching from the all concealing shadows. I doubt you are actually in the darkness typing on the interwebz.
Please do. Everything you have mentioned to this point has pretty much not happened. What else is there left for this administration to do? There are more positive COVID cases on Trump’s legal team than winning lawsuits. I am really trying to understand where else this can go.
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https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1336835521742516224?s=19
This is what the Republicans allowed…
https://twitter.com/sunrisemvmt/status/1336698730586796033?s=19
…I know right??
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Zatalcon,
Have you ever been attacked in NYC by the police?
You know since you’re BLACK!!!
Believe in facts and figures until it comes to Covid or Trumps election feels i guess.
ah, until Covid… right… just like the Woodstock-like gatherings for BLM riots to Biden street parties?
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Idk. Nobody argued that those were 100% good or even advisable.
The argument was that it wasn’t the same as intentionally making maskless reservations at Trumps palm licking contests
You know damn well that boy ain’t black
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Especially because we know he didn’t vote for Biden 
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It’s still greatly hypocritical and also contributing to increase to the problem.
Yo! Optimus, can you repost that link you gave so this guy can read instead of baiting me to argue about this again?
https://twitter.com/BrianFrosh/status/1336766933769871361
FYI Brian Frosh is the Attorney General of Maryland.
I don’t even get why Texas would think of asking a Blue State to jump on this BS.
Yeah the Governor is Republican, but he hates Trump too.
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I saw people on Twitter try to say Republicans are constitutionalists because Republicans are trying to sue swing states. That’s actually the opposite of being a constitutionalist considering states are free to run elections how they see fit and other states don’t get a say in that. It’s actually crazy to see Republicans say how much they follow the constitution but only when it applies to their interests.
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