Comment Re:19-0? (Score 1) 390
The majority of the population does NOT want to see this pass, yet it made it through the Senate with NO opposition?
You're surprised?
Senator Patrick Leahy, "the main sponsor of the bill" is the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
All but 4 members of that committee are co-sponsors of the bill.
One of those 4 is Al Franken who has close ties to the entertainment industry.
That leaves 3 others who might have voted against it but knew going in that it didn't matter either way so they probably offered to trade their rubber stamp vote for a vote on something they wanted.
This thing should have died in committee. But with the deck stacked like it was I can't say the results surprise me.