Protect IP Author Senator Patrick Leahy Says 'Further Study' is Needed

If there was Internet Freedom bills proposed, there would be discussion on Internet Freedom instead of these discussions of compromise and feasibility for the anti-Internet activists. This appears to be a stalling tactic to more anti-Internet measures, or promoting anti-Internet measures. They have introduced similar bills after it failed before.

"Hey, a lot of people don't want more Internet controls. So lets get them involved in the Internet control discussion by playing on their hopes of less Internet control. Their supporters will lose momentum as people say 'discussions are ongoing'. We can then easily pass more anti-Internet stuff when we can as we have done in the past. It's brilliant."

So lets go ahead and pass the bill as is, with an amendment that requires us to study the potential affects of the bill at a later time before enacting the bill.

I'm sorry but no thank you. I don't trust you money grubbing ass hats to enact the bill properly; I'm not going to trust you to study the already passed bill properly.

This rings true:

I worked closely with the ISPs in drafting this provision to ensure they were comfortable with how it would work

This sounds like BS:

I remain confident that the ISPs – including the cable industry, which is the largest association of ISPs – would not support the legislation if its enactment created the problems that opponents of this provision suggest.

At best, that second quote reflects a real misunderstanding of the big ISPs and their interests.

Am I the only one more concerned about furthering the "guilty until proven innocent" than I am about the DNS? Of course the DNS issue is huge, but not nearly as large (IMO, bviously) as "prove you are innocent from behind bars".

You'd think there'd be some "study" involved when authoring the bill, except I have my doubts that he wrote even a single line of it.

Just reading the first few sentences it's apparent that the author is 70+ years old.

I know I'm being bitter and jaded, but I assume they're just gonna put it on the shelf for a few months, hope everyone forgets about it and then try to get it through quietly attached to some other giant spending bill or something.