How many pages was the ACA, and GOPers complained, yep Omnibus Bill is 5,500 pages?

[TheBlackAdder]

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'This is atrocious': Congress crams language to criminalize online streaming, meme-sharing into 5,500-page omnibus bill

Lawmakers in Congress are under fire from digital rights campaigners for embedding three controversial changes to online copyright and trademark laws into the must-pass $2.3 trillion legislative package—which includes a $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill and a $900 billion Covid-19 relief bill—that could receive floor votes in the House and Senate as early as Monday evening. The punitive provisions crammed into the enormous bill (pdf), warned Evan Greer of the digital rights group Fight for the Future, "threaten ordinary Internet users with up to $30,000 in fines for engaging in everyday activity such as downloading an image and re-uploading it... [or] sharing memes." While the citizenry had almost no time to process the actual contents of the 5,593 page legislative text, Greer said Monday afternoon that the CASE Act, Felony Streaming Act, and Trademark Modernization Act "are in fact included in the must-pass omnibus spending bill." As Mike Masnick explained in a piece at TechDirt on Monday: The CASE Act will supercharge copyright trolling exactly at a time when we need to fix the law to have less trolling. And the felony streaming bill (which was only just revealed last week with no debate or discussion) includes provisions that are so confusing and vague no one is sure if it makes sites like Twitch into felons. "The fact that these are getting added to the must-pass government funding bill is just bad government," Masnick added. "And congressional leadership should hear about this."

https://www.rawstory.com/this-is-atrocious-congress-crams-language-to-criminalize-online-streaming-meme-sharing-into-5-500-page-omnibus-bill/

WTF?

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[Karadeniz]

1. It's been said many times: can we just have bills that are concerned with one issue?

[msongs]

2. please dont ask congresspersons of both parties to be held accountable for their votes ok? nt

[Karadeniz]

4. I'm sorry... Lapse of sanity! I'll try to stay better attuned to reality!

[RANDYWILDMAN]

3. You knew something was up with 5k worth of paper

all kids of BS is hidden in this, in addition to the whopping $600 per person who qualifies for it. (It should be more a lot more )

wow