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Boycotting SOPA Supporters is All or Nothing
- jakeludington 15y agoDid you move your domains off Go Daddy without throwing out your Marvel Comics, flushing your Viagra, and telling your kids that Toy Story is now on the banned viewing list?
- ryanyamayama 15y agoPassing SOPA will be essentially allowing controls that the Chinese gov't imposes on their folks internet usage.
- kellyhclay 15y agoI know I can't deal without Advil and football this weekend. But I also can't deal with the potential loss of the Internet as we now know it. Don't want to be a hypocrite? Contact your congressmen instead.
- Animus7 15y agoI don't see any actual argument here. "If you're boycotting only some of these companies for supporting SOPA, you must boycott all of them"? Not really... Boycotting GoDaddy made perfect sense: they are an internet company supporting legislation that would ruin the internet. Presumably they knew perfectly well what they were doing (considering this is the core of their business) and they needed to be shown that the world doesn't agree that it's okay. Whereas I doubt L'Oreal executives knew or cared about this bill beyond someone promising them it would help their business to sign on the dotted line. Boycotting them would be an arbitrary self-righteous waste of time that could be spent pestering your representative -- which actually has a chance of making a difference.
- jakeludington 15y agoDisney is a far bigger "Internet company" than Go Daddy by both traffic and dollars generated online. By your logic, it makes more perfect sense to boycott Disney than to boycott Go Daddy. But the article agrees with you that pestering your representative is a better use of time regardless of which company you choose to boycott or not.
- jeff1132 15y agoThe reality is you can't boycott everyone. Sometimes it's even hard to know who or what to boycott, and people just don't have time and energy to follow all that. Boycott toilet paper to protest SOPA? Not going to happen. Pressuring your representatives in Congress is more likely to succeed.
- jeff1132 15y agoSOPA is about controlling the flow of information. Just like large corporations now own media outlets and now influence their content, SOPA will do the same for the Internet. And with both media and Internet under control, the average citizen will know only what the corporations want us to know. Scary.
- PFournier 15y agoThe internet is fine as it is. You can't and won't stop people from infringing on copyright laws even if you have this silly bill pass.