SOPA author Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) and Senate majority lead Harry Reid (D-NV) both issued statements today that they would be delaying votes on SOPA and PIPA. Rep. Smith says “we need to revisit the approach on how best to address the problem“; Senator Reid will send the bill back to the Senate Judiciary Committee, and hopes to “reach a compromise in the coming weeks“.
It looks like those 18 Senators have their work cut out for them. Few of them have indicated they have any understanding of how the bills are dangerously broken.
PS: Clay Shirky has a brilliant TED talk about the bills online.
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