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Re:Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA? by levellers on Thursday January 12, 2012 @04:43AM (#3455686)
It is beside the point where you are based. The US are pushing this because they know that other countries will follow. So if they can't shut down a site because its out of their jurisdiction, in the long run they wont have too.

The UK have been trying to pass a load of crazy crap like this. If the US pass it then we will follow.

This is why everyone should be protesting against regardless of your geographical location, unless you want a web in which every country sees different.

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Re:Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA? by gaius on Thursday January 12, 2012 @07:32AM (#3456084)
We did have a government that believed in censorship, surveillance, ID papers, biometric databases and so on. Guess what, we voted them out, and the first thing the new government did was scrap all that.
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