Companies That Oppose SOPA Wouldn’t Otherwise

I started thinking about SOPA and all the non-digital media companies that support SOPA…

http://theoriesofconspiracy.com/2011/11/list-of-major-companies-supporting-sopa.htm

Nike, Coach, Lucky Brand… I get it, I get it. You wanna’ stop oversea counterfeit web sites. That’s their reason. With 95% of those companies, their support isn’t based on ethics but necessity (greed).

Of the companies that oppose SOPA, companies like Wikipedia, Facebook, Reddit, Google… well it’s mostly a lot of Internet-based companies. I started thinking how lucky we are to have them on our side. But then I started thinking about Apple and how they support SOPA, the company that typically only does good. So why, then, does Google oppose SOPA? Google has no problem “being evil” (such as them working to undermine net neutrality with Verizon), so why wouldn’t they take the same stance as Apple? AOL and eBay are also opposers of SOPA, and they’re both greedy, faceless corporations. So why do they do the right thing?

I kept thinking about all the companies that oppose SOPA that are clearly evil… way more dirty and greedy than, say, Apple. Why… why are all these faceless corporations opposed to SOPA when they could just as easily support it?

Then it dawned on me… nearly every single one of the companies that opposes SOPA are ALL internet companies! They don’t give a shit about SOPA ethically, they only care because SOPA would make them do extra work to police their Internet businesses! In fact (given the record of the companies that already do support SOPA), they’d actually SUPPORT SOPA if the tables were turned and everyone else was effected but them.

Think about it… Wikipedia, Reddit, Google, they’re opposing SOPA and acting like they’re doing it because “it’s the right thing to do” or “we’re protecting the Internet”, bull shit! They’re only taking a stance because their business model would be effected for the worst! Just like all the companies that support SOPA only do so because it’ll effect their business model for the positive.

What a load if crap… all these companies that are taking a stance against SOPA, they ain’t standing with us, they never have been… they’re just USING us to help make sure a bill ain’t passed that effects their business model (when it’s the users of the Internet who’re truly being effected). The only major web site that comes to mind that is truly looking out for the public is The Electronic Frontier Foundation. All the rest, publicly, wouldn’t give a shit otherwise.

But that’s life. Don’t really matter if your standing in the middle of the road with your eyes closed or with your eyes wide open… your gonna’ get hit by the bus whether you see it coming or not. JbB