You'd like every judge in the country to have a Wikipedia kill-switch, and "see them try it"? Because let me tell you: the courtrooms in East Texas are filled w

You'd like every judge in the country to have a Wikipedia kill-switch, and "see them try it"? Because let me tell you: the courtrooms in East Texas are filled with a bunch of nutjobs. And it only takes one of them to do it. Even ignoring the kill switch: this is a bill that would make it illegal to cite sources via hyperlink if the site being linked to contains copyrighted material anywhere, even outside of the linked page, or posted years after the link was originally created. Even if a user posted the link -- and even if that link was swiftly removed by an editor -- Wikipedia would have broken the law for allowing the link to ever have been posted at all, and would be subject to strict penalties. This is a law that Wikipedia literally could not comply with unless it changed its essential character.