Murdoch slams White House over SOPA in Twitter row
Found on The Register on Sunday, 15 January 2012
“So Obama has thrown in his lot with Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery,” he posted on his recently-started Twitter account. “Piracy leader is Google who streams movies free, sells advts around them. No wonder pouring millions into lobbying.”
The statement said that the White House couldn’t support the current legislation as it would interfere with the use of the DNS architecture which underlies most current internet use.
Rupert should better shut up. His way to run a media empire might have been fine in the past, but for today, he is just too old for it and fails to grasp the new concepts needed to be successful. He's just crying like a spoiled little kid because politics shift away from him as one of the paymasters; he doesn't get what he wants and now he's stomping his foot down and crying wolf.