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Let me know when you want to get in touch with reality. This is SOPA. The government has done far worse. And the Internet will survive SOPA, just as it survi
by davidu 15y ago
Let me know when you want to get in touch with reality.
This is SOPA. The government has done far worse. And the Internet will survive SOPA, just as it survived the DMCA.
That doesn't mean it isn't horrible. It still needs to be stopped. That's why I went to DC to meet with congressmen to talk about how badly written and reckless it is, but you think I should destroy 120 jobs over it? I don't think so.
- imgabe 15y agoTalking to Congressmen is great. I hope that it's sufficient to stop this. If it's not, then what? Is your position that it's just not really that bad? Or that whatever freedom we lose is less important than running your business? That's a valid position to take. Everyone is entitled to set their own priorities. Maybe they'll just go this far and stop, and that will be enough interference with the operation of the Internet. I'm sure plenty of people thought that was the case when the DMCA passed.
- jim-greer 15y agoClearly his position is that it's a horrible law. He's traveled to DC to fight it, which is more than the rest of us on this thread. But getting his business sued out of existence would be a futile, if noble, gesture. The law is technically simple to implement, and it's going to happen if it gets passed. This whole thread is a fantasy based on the misguided idea that implementing SOPA requires building some Great Firewall of America. It doesn't require that. It's just domain seizure, which already works alarmingly well. I'm all for engineers fighting, striking, etc. But we need to stop this law now, before it is passed.