The MPAA lobbyist who wrote SOPA will help draft the Democratic Party platform

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“Hollywood” Howard Berman, a former US Congressman-turned-MPAA-lobbyist is one of the 15-member panel selected by the Democratic Party establishment to draft the party’s platform for this summer’s convention.

Berman took titanic amounts of money from the entertainment industry during his term in office and was rewarded with a cushy, high-paid job as a lobbyist for the movie studios when he left Congress. He was also one of the main forces pushing for ACTA, one of those disastrous trade agreements the Democratic Party says it no longer supports.

Amazingly, SOPA wasn’t the stupidest copyright law he drafted – just the one that got the furthest. There was that time he proposed making it legal for entertainment companies to hack any computer on the Internet if they thought it was involved in piracy and face no consequences if they attacked an innocent person or caused harm.

https://boingboing.net/2016/05/31/the-mpaa-lobbyist-who-wrote-so.html

Oh for fuck’s sake, Democrats. Get your fucking act together, you idiots.

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