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Counterpoint: When the Internet went "dark" over SOPA, people noticed, and SOPA died. If everyone in Europe woke up one morning next year to find Facebook sayi
by Silhouette 9y ago
Counterpoint: When the Internet went "dark" over SOPA, people noticed, and SOPA died.
If everyone in Europe woke up one morning next year to find Facebook saying that as a result of new EU law they had been required to turn off their service and please would everyone write to their representatives (using the form conveniently provided below) to ask why they'd done this, what do you think would happen?
- FridgeSeal 9y agoFor a lot of people, if not nearly all of them, it's a lot less effort to migrate to a new social network with your friends than it is to lobby to have some laws repealed, especially when it's clear that these laws are in the interest of the public and have been put together with serious thought and consultation.
- devdas 9y agoMigrating to a new social network is harder as an individual than a group.
- riffraff 9y agoI think the difference in perception would be huge. SOPA felt like a gift to Evil Media Corporations at the expense of The Internet People. If Facebook goes dark as a protest against GDDR, people are far more likely to side with the EU, than with the Evil Corporation That Avoids Taxes.
- Oletros 9y ago> what do you think would happen? Facebook would disappear from the EU