Perhaps someone here at HN can do what the RfC's opposing commenters repeatedly asked someone to do, but which no one (at least in the few hundred comments I re

Perhaps someone here at HN can do what the RfC's opposing commenters repeatedly asked someone to do, but which no one (at least in the few hundred comments I read) actually did: Explain how SOPA threatens the existence of Wikipedia. Show your work. It's one thing to say "this situation is different! we're fighting for survival!" and another thing to argue it based on past real events and the actual contents of the bill. There is a reason WP avoids political advocacy as a foundational principle, and it's not just to preserve their status as a charity.