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#blackoutsopa by Fred Wilson
- ryandvm 15y agoThis is worse than pointless. For one, nobody is going to do it. So if this action results in anything it's going to be that 0.00003% of Twitter users are against SOPA. But beyond that, this protest is based on the flawed assumption that your legislative representatives give a shit. That they are actually crafting legislation for you. They are not. They are trying to please the people that pay their campaign costs. There is not a single representative voting for SOPA that thinks their constituency is interested in an Internet-wide ban hammer.
- losethos 15y agoGod is just. God says... C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\Brief\AUGUST.TXT ut of that which is ever present? Who shall hold the heart of man, that it may stand still, and see how eternity ever still-standing, neither past nor to come, uttereth the times past and to come? Can my hand do this, or the hand of my mouth by speech bring about a thing so great? See, I answer him that asketh, "What did God before He made heaven and earth?" I answer not as one is said to have done merrily (eluding the pressure of the question), "He was preparing hell (saith he) for pryers int