{"id":399,"date":"2012-01-18T08:53:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T15:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lionspeak.asinglelion.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2012-01-18T08:53:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T15:53:40","slug":"this-site-is-still-up-18-jan-2012-i-support-sopa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"This site is still up. 18 Jan 2012 I support SOPA"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0From Wikipedia<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Imagine a World<\/span><\/p>\n

Without Free Knowledge<\/span><\/p>\n

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To that I retort imagine a world where Knowledge producers are slaves.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Knowledge is not free because that is most valuable is what is produced by the mind of men. <\/span><\/p>\n

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What is at stake is not Free Speech but the right of the producer to trade that which they produce, value for value again that how feel the intent is a license to loot.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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To this I leave two excepts form John Gault\u2019s Speech form Atlas Shrugged<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe symbol of all relationships among such men, the moral symbol of respect for human beings, is the trader. We, who live by values, not by loot, are traders, both in matter and in spirit. A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved. A trader does not ask to be paid for his failures, nor does he ask to be loved for his flaws. A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms. Just as he does not give his work except in trade for material values, so he does not give the values of his spirit-his love, his friendship, his esteem-except in payment and in trade for human virtues, in payment for his own selfish pleasure, which he receives from men he can respect. The mystic parasites who have, throughout the ages, reviled the traders and held them in contempt, while honoring the beggars and the looters, have known the secret motive of their sneers: a trader is the entity they dread-a man of justice.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The source of property rights is the law of causality. All property and all forms of wealth are produced by man\u2019s mind and labor. As you cannot have effects without causes, so you cannot have wealth without its source: without intelligence. You cannot force intelligence to work: those who\u2019re able to think, will not work under compulsion: those who will, won\u2019t produce much more than the price of the whip needed to keep them enslaved. You cannot obtain the products of a mind except on the owner\u2019s terms, by trade and by volitional consent. Any other policy of men toward man\u2019s poverty is the policy of criminals, no matter what their numbers. Criminals are savages who play in short-range and starve when their prey runs out-just as you\u2019re starving today, you who believed that crime could be \u2018practical\u2019 if your government decreed that robbery was legal and resistance to robbery illegal.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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