Public Knowledge has a nice PIPA/SOPA talking points memo:<br>
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<a href="http://files.meetup.com/3038682/SOPA%20and%20PIPA%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf">http://files.meetup.com/3038682/SOPA%20and%20PIPA%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf</a><br>
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You may also want to express support for an apparent "managers<br>
amendment" being considered that would strike any DNS-related language from proposed bills. See:<br>
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<a href="http://www.politico.com/morningtech/">http://www.politico.com/morningtech/</a><br>
<p><strong>--HOPE FOR A SECOND MANAGER’S AMENDMENT?</strong> The big
question coming out of a panel discussion featuring lawmakers here on
Wednesday was whether a second manager’s amendment to SOPA might be
coming down the line. Rep. Darrell Issa said he has not seen any such
amendment but alluded to early talks among panel Republicans (first
reported by POLITICO) to drop the bill’s DNS provisions.</p>
<p>For now, folks on House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith’s
team didn’t comment on the speculation. Still, some members are waiting
for any word of incoming changes to the bill. In an interview after the
panel concluded, Rep. Cliff Stearns stressed to MT that he didn’t think
“anybody should have a strong position” on SOPA until any possible
second manager’s amendment is made public. We’re tracking.</p>
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<p><strong>CROCKER: PULLING DNS BLOCKING PROVISIONS FROM SOPA/PIPA WOULD BE ‘FANTASTIC’ —</strong>
That's what the chair of the ICANN board of directors told MT. In his
capacity as chief executive of Shinkuro, Crocker has joined with Dan
Kaminsky and other Internet engineers to raise security concerns about
the domain name-related provisions in SOPA and PROTECT IP.</p>
<p>Republican House Judiciary Committee staffers discussed last week
dropping a controversial domain name-blocking provision from the bill,
but no decisions have been made. "DNS filtering is a very bad idea,"
Crocker said. "All of us would like to emphasize that we're not opposed
to combating piracy and we're happy for the other elements of the bill
that are focused on getting at the money flow and the advertising chain.
It's a question of using the right tools to get the job done and not
having consequential damage and unintended consequences."</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Marc Perkel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marc@churchofreality.org">marc@churchofreality.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
In 2 hours I'm going to see two congress critters. Nancy Pelosi and Mike Honda at a fundraiser in Palo Alto.<br>
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What is the most effective argument I can make to these people that will result in changing their minds?<br>
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