As I wrote yesterday, Rep Lamar “SOPA” Smith is trying to sneak through another variation on SOPA in the form of the the Intellectual Property Attache Act, which was steaming through Congress without any public scrutiny or debate.
Now it’s begun to stumble, and TechDirt reports that “support for the bill is wavering. Some of the named co-sponsors have made it clear that they’re just as unhappy that the bill was being rushed out this way without public comment and were uncomfortable with some of the specifics in the bill — and that these concerns mean that the bill may actually be delayed.”
Many of our American readers will be constituents of the Congresspeople on the House Judiciary Committee, where the Intellectual Property Attache Act originates. If you do, please take a moment to call your Congressperson’s constituency office and let them know that this isn’t how you want your country’s Internet policy made, nohow.