Howling Mad Murdoch

I still think Rupert Murdoch's Twitter account is the biggest, most complex scam in media history, but while we're all going on the notion that Rupes is really the man behind the screen here, it's instructive to point out everything you need to know about SOPA in the House and the PROTECT IP Act in the Senate is that Rupert is pissed that President Obama is against them.

“So Obama has thrown in his lot with Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery,” Murdoch said in a tweet.

Activists and Internet professionals argue that the bills give outside agencies too much control over Internet content and could result in censorship and the erosion of free speech.

Internet-base companies like Google and Yahoo oppose the measure, saying it would put U.S. tech policy on par with “China, Malaysia and Iran.”

“Piracy leader is Google who streams movies free, sells advts around them. No wonder pouring millions into lobbying,” Murdoch said in a follow up tweet.

“Just been to google search for mission impossible. Wow, several sites offering free links. I rest my case,” he added.

Gosh, Rupert Murdoch would sure love to see Google and other user-generated content sites be closed down, which is what these pieces of legislation would do:  effectively end user-generated content sites on the internet.  Google, Facebook, Twitter, all gone, all shut down because the legislation would support Rupert Murdoch's myopic view of "piracy" and allow people like him total control over the net.

So he's using Twitter to attack it.  The guy whose news outfits hacked and stole voice mails and phone data.  He's worried about piracy.  That's pretty damn funny.