Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?

Re:Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA? by lallysingh on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @08:02PM (#3454558)

FWIW, I think if Google, Twitter, and/or Facebook joined, they'd just put up custom messages (maybe with a link?) to an anti-SOPA page.

Of course, the question is, how do they define their political neutrality after this?

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Re:Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA? by sp332 on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @08:41PM (#3454687)

Google has a decent (not perfect) track record of arguing in support of free speech around the world. They're not politically neutral.

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Re:Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA? by saraid216 on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @08:12PM (#3454597)

They admit there isn't such a thing as political neutrality, I'd hope.

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Re:Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA? by dhx on Thursday January 12, 2012 @03:30AM (#3455547)

It's not even a case of politics for these companies. They need to avoid regulation to survive.

The most important asset these companies have are highly skilled and sought after researchers. How appealing will Google be to work for if the projects they work on are designed to:

* prevent access to information that researchers require for their studies

* stall or prevent innovation

* favour established and inflexible industries over startups

* increase the amount of bureaucracy everyone has to deal with

* force problems into hiding rather than providing real solutions

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Re:Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA? by nextparadigms on Thursday January 12, 2012 @12:26AM (#3455154)

I think not allowing SOPA and PIPA to pass, by itself defines neutrality. They just want the Internet the remain like it's always been - unaffected by politics.

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