The original article has been removed from Reddit, and only the comment thread remains. Apparently there is some doubt as to whether Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia a

The original article has been removed from Reddit, and only the comment thread remains. Apparently there is some doubt as to whether Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia actually wrote the e-mail in question. Here is the full text of the article, taken from http://smagula.org/?q=aggregator/sources/7 http://smagula.org/?q=aggregator/sources/7 : 30 December 2011 - 9:27pm First my email to Jimmy Hi Jimmy, I'm going to keep this short and sweet. Reddit is capable of doing giant things, GoDaddy for example. But it seems as if the internet is only boycotting GoDaddy because they (godaddy) actually rely on the internet that they are ruining for profits. There are a great number of posts on reddit calling for action and a larger boycott of all the companies backing SOPA, but they are getting lost in the static. So I ask you to write one more personal appeal calling for action. As a internet celebrity of sorts, and a figurehead for free speech I feel as if your words would be taken less lightly and people across the globe might get on the same page so to speak. Thanks for everything you do, a concerned internet addict. And his reply: I think it's worth taking a step back and thinking about what we can accomplish and how we can win this thing. The boycott and back down of Go Daddy was important - it got the Internet community organized to start doing something. But the support of one company doesn't make or break SOPA - indeed, the support of whatever companies doesn't make or break SOPA - what does is awakening the general public and activating them to call, write, or visit their Congressperson. Many of the companies on the list of supporters do, in fact, have legitimate beefs with the current situation. Particularly for companies like Chanel, Coach, Juicy Couture, etc. - they face a daily problem with counterfeit merchandise sold via foreign websites. Boycotting them would be counter-productive because they are rightly considered by the public to be victims here. My issue is not with working to crack down on counterfeit goods, trademark infringement, copyright infringement, etc. My issue is that the bill attempts to do so in a way that is inconsistent with the First Amendment and that the bill is technologically incompetent. A boycott against companies who are not tech companies (and who therefore, unlike Go Daddy, can't be expected to understand the technical issues) in this context runs the risk of the entire anti-SOPA movement being branded unfairly as not caring about the real problems. So Go Daddy backed down - and Congress watched that play out. The next thing is not to hammer on other companies, but to hammer on Congress directly. I've been told that if I can get 30,000-40,000 people to call or write their Congressional representative, it will have an impact. My view is that 30,000-40,000 is easy. We should be aiming much higher. But to do that we have to get people off their butts to do the right thing. A lot of people! I think we can! --Jimbo Wise words. I can submit a screenshot for proof if need be.