GoDaddy: A glimpse of the Internet under SOPA

Re:GoDaddy: A glimpse of the Internet under SOPA by wvenable on Tuesday December 27, 2011 @12:57AM (#3394964)

This isn't going to happen. If SOPA passes, there will be selective enforcement just as there is now -- you won't be able to get any .gov sites blacklisted, or facebook, or Google. You probably couldn't even get ycombinator blacklisted. 4chan, maybe.

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Re:GoDaddy: A glimpse of the Internet under SOPA by shaggyfrog on Tuesday December 27, 2011 @03:06AM (#3395124)

In a world where SOPA passes, blocking 4chan would amount to an atomic declaration of war. If Anonymous wasn't already going balls-out at that point.

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Re:GoDaddy: A glimpse of the Internet under SOPA by dangrossman on Tuesday December 27, 2011 @04:51AM (#3395303)

But SOPA includes private rights of action -- you don't have to convince a government to prosecute anyone. You just need to get any private rightsholder whose content appears on a site to make the good faith claims and poof, their ad networks and payment processors have to sever ties if they want safe harbor.

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