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President Obama on debate over the SOPA. As readers of this blog will know, the debate over the Stop Piracy Online Act (SOPA) has been heating up.

President Obama on debate over the SOPA

Now, the Obama administration has also had its say on this. A message was posted yesterday on a White House blog by Victoria Espinel, Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator at the Office of Management and Budget, Aneesh Chopra, U.S. Chief Technology Officer, and Howard Schmidt, Special Assistant to the President and Cybersecurity Coordinator for National Security Staff, as regards two petitions about legislative approaches to combat online piracy. SOPA/PIPA Supporters Pretend White House Statement Means We Can Rush Through SOPA/PIPA. Following the White House's surprise move to effectively tell SOPA/PIPA supporters to go back to the drawing board and come back with bills that don't censor the internet, don't break basic online security tools and that don't create unjustified litigation -- SOPA and PIPA supporters are going full press spin to try to pretend this is "good news.

SOPA/PIPA Supporters Pretend White House Statement Means We Can Rush Through SOPA/PIPA

" I'm not joking. The MPAA came out with a pretty laughable statement that appears to suggest that the White House's statement means it's time to "stop the obstruction" and just pass the bills: So now it is time to stop the obstruction and move forward on legislation. Our industry not only fully supports free expression, our livelihood is built upon a vibrant First Amendment - it is the foundation of our industry and we would never support any legislation that would limit this fundamental American right. Rupert Murdoch turns to Twitter to attack Obama. The 1709 Blog. Threat Level - Privacy, Crime and Security Online.

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Obama’s anti-SOPA stance seeks compromise to Silicon Valley-Hollywood standoff. Updated with response from the pro-SOPA lobby The Obama administration issued a statement earlier today saying that it supports a serious legislative response to piracy problems but will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk or undermines “the dynamic innovative global Internet.”

Obama’s anti-SOPA stance seeks compromise to Silicon Valley-Hollywood standoff

While the statement did not mention the much debated Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) by name, it was clearly intended to respond to the furious debate around it – and to take a sensible middle road. The move suggests the White House is trying to forge a delicate balance between large media interests (think Hollywood) and innovative companies that are trying to aggregate or otherwise point to information in a useful, progressive way (think Silicon Valley). Shifting the discussion to principles « BuzzMachine. The good news about the White House’s response to an anti-SOPA petition is that it raised the discussion to the level of principles, arguing against “disrupting the underlying architecture of the Internet.”

Shifting the discussion to principles « BuzzMachine

That is where it needs to be. The bad news, as Tim O’Reilly eloquently explores, is that the White House makes a gross and unsubstantiated assumption: Let us be clear—online piracy is a real problem that harms the American economy, and threatens jobs for significant numbers of middle class workers and hurts some of our nation’s most creative and innovative companies and entrepreneurs. It harms everyone from struggling artists to production crews, and from startup social media companies to large movie studios.

While we are strongly committed to the vigorous enforcement of intellectual property rights, existing tools are not strong enough to root out the worst online pirates beyond our borders. O’Reilly responds: That is why we must raise this discussion to the level of principles. I. V. White House Strangles SOPA, Citing Censorship, Security Concerns. In a statement on behalf of the Obama administration this morning, a trio of senior officials including the nation's Chief Technology Officer made clear that any anti-piracy legislation passing the President's desk would not create risks of censorship, nor would it condone any alterations to the Internet's domain name system that could invite security dangers.

White House Strangles SOPA, Citing Censorship, Security Concerns

The statement, which lists all three anti-piracy bills currently under discussion - the PROTECT-IP and OPEN bills in the Senate, and the SOPA bill in the House - is a loud warning shot indicating the President's lack of support, and likely veto, of any legislation that requires tampering with the structure of the Internet to enable enforcement. The statement was issued just after 8:00 am ET, and was signed by Office of Management and Budget IP Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra, and National Security Staff Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt.

Obama administration joins the ranks of SOPA skeptics. The Obama administration has joined the ranks of skeptics of the Stop Online Piracy Act.

Obama administration joins the ranks of SOPA skeptics

In an online statement released Saturday, three senior White House officials wrote that the administration "will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet. " The statement was made in response to a petition on the White House's "we the people" site asking the president to veto SOPA if it reached his desk. The officials—IP enforcement coordinator Victoria Espinel, CTO Aneesh Chopra, and cybersecurity coordinator Howard Schmidt—did not commit the president to vetoing SOPA. However, they laid out criteria for an anti-piracy bill that seems to clearly rule out SOPA and the Senate's Protect IP Act in their current form.

The White House seems most concerned with DNS-blocking, which is becoming the red-headed stepchild of SOPA provisions. Issa hearing postponed Meanwhile, Rep. Obama Administration responds to We the People petitions on SOPA and online piracy.