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Have you tried Graffiti analogy? Imagine you are a shop owner and someone writes something offensive on the outside of your building without you even knowing a
by noahc 15y ago
Have you tried Graffiti analogy?
Imagine you are a shop owner and someone writes something offensive on the outside of your building without you even knowing about it. This bill would allow the government to shutdown your store before you even knew the writing existed.
Today we already have in place a mechanism to notify the store owner, but SOPA changes that. It makes it possible to shut down entrepenuers, the store owners and wealth creators on the internet, before they even have a chance to get started helping to revitalize the American economy.
- kn0thing 15y ago(Devil's advocate) "But how would you not notice someone graffitied your wall?" I dig this analogy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3426990 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3426990
- noahc 15y agoI think that one is better too. I was picturing an outside wall with the shop owner inside all day behind the counter. The Mickey Mouse one is more concise though.
- lukeschlather 15y agoA better base for the analogy might be a mall, since there are a variety of situations where SOPA could result in a slew of virtual storefronts being taken down due to the actions of a customer in a single store that wasn't doing proper policing of its customers (never mind whether the stores should be responsible for policing their customers, attacking this at the domain level is like shutting down a mall because of the nonviolent actions of a few customers, and blaming it on the mall.)
- evolve2k 15y ago'The government could shut down your pub cause 2 old guys were at a table bitch'n about Obama.'
- thegb05 15y agoRelated to Graffiti, I came up with this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3427835 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3427835