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Originally Posted by Penguin
The fact that some people were surprised about this action by wikipedia and didn't know about it beforehand, shows only how much need there is for internet protest. German wiki states in it's article about SOPA that the mayor American news outlets nearly made no reports about this law. Those outlets who run big stories about any fart J-Lo utters. One should not wonder about this though, as their owners support this stupid bill.
I find Google's doodle for the US kind of cool:
Also it's fine that they ask their users to take action: https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/
German Google has nothing about SOPA though, no droodle, no link  |
I hate to sound like a cocky American Turd, who thinks the world revolves around us, but this law will hurt the world as a whole.
The crippling of information, is the impedment of human progress.
If this goes over, I put my checking account on similar laws in your Euro havens coming soon after.
Then we can all just use censored baidu, and be happy in ignorant bliss.
Maybe the Chinese will share the "bad" words with us, so we know what not to search so we won't be arrested indefinitely under the patriot act