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A comment on RFC: Blanking all Wikipedia as SOPA protest. Parent comment

Re:RFC: Blanking all Wikipedia as SOPA protest by rospaya on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @06:22AM (#3347192)
> There are a lot of comments saying that the blackout should spare non-US countries as it does not affect us. For those who feel this way, please read holmesworcesters comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3235431

But there's nothing we (non-US citizens) can do about it. Any noise we make means nothing to US politicians who are accountable only to the American people, and sometimes it looks not even to them.

Don't make the rest of us suffer for bad choices made by US voters.

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Re:RFC: Blanking all Wikipedia as SOPA protest by mduerksen on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @06:53AM (#3347229)
Endure one single day of blacked-out Wikipedia and Google, and gain significantly better negotiation positions when it comes to our own law-making processes.

To me, that's a small sacrifice that can be really rewarding.

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