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what would happen if Google, Bing (and by association Yahoo), made all SOPA-supporting properties disappear from organic and ad-sponsored searches. my bet - th
by leeoniya 15y ago
what would happen if Google, Bing (and by association Yahoo), made all SOPA-supporting properties disappear from organic and ad-sponsored searches.
my bet - the bill would be be dead within days, they have no obligation to service SOPA supporters.
- JeffL 15y agoWhile that sounds cool, such blatant non-neutrality from search engines sounds almost as scary to me as what they're protesting.
- Joakal 15y agoThe alternative is the bill making such companies non-neutral, for copyright industry interests.
- redthrowaway 15y agoAgreed. "Free speech (so long as we agree with it)" is exactly what we're opposing, here.
- kevinh 15y agoWhat we're (or at least I) am opposing is government regulation of free speech. Corporations are allowed to regulate speech on sites that they own.
- redthrowaway 15y agoFair enough. We can at least agree, I hope, that tactically it would be a poor choice.
- tomjen3 15y agoThat ended when they passed the DMCA.