Could we defend ourselves? Yes, we could. This “muzzle the web” legislation will throw the doors open to even more frivolous complaints. * Remember when the Brady Campaign got 36 state and local jurisdictions to bring frivolous lawsuits against gun manufacturers –- not in the expectation of winning, but to drain the resources of the manufacturers in order to halt the manufacture of guns in America? Thankfully, the FEC ruled in GOA’s favor, thus enabling us to continue posting candidate ratings without restraint.
* Remember when the Brady Campaign asked the Federal Election Commission in 2007 to shut down GOA’s ability to post its candidate ratings on the Internet? They claimed that we were in violation of the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act. But the Brady Campaign is the King of Frivolous Complaints: How would they do this? Perhaps by arguing that we were stealing their intellectual property by quoting their lying misrepresentations in our alerts. 3261 allows any “holder of an intellectual property right” to demand that PayPal and other payment and advertising services stop providing services to organizations like ours, thereby shutting off our income. Here are the “gun problems,” as we see them: But the reality is this: We are within a few votes of killing the whole concept next week in the Senate with only 41 Senate votes.īut if we allow the so-called “anti-piracy” bill to go forward on the HOPE that the worst provisions will not make it into the final version -– and we fail to eliminate them -– the bill may be unstoppable. True, many of the most serious “gun problems” are in the House counterpart. The Senate bill and its House counterpart have accurately been called “a direct attack on the underpinnings of the web.”
#GUN WEBSITES SHUT DOWN SERIES#
968 could, in its final form, allow the Brady Campaign to partially shut down our GOA website and our organization (plus many other pro-gun websites) with a series of factually accurate, but legally frivolous complaints. Wikipedia and Google are just two of the websites which are protesting in this manner.Īnd while you may have not paid much attention to this story, you need to know that the “muzzle the web” legislation these sites are protesting could also affect your ability to get gun-related information on websites like GOA’s. By now, you are no doubt aware that several websites have either gone totally or partially “dark” today in protest of the pernicious internet legislation that will be coming to a vote next week.
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