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Re:Wikipedia to Shut Down on Wednesday to Protest SOPA by rmc on Monday January 16, 2012 @04:47PM (#3472568)
Nonsense. There are loads of bad US laws (e.g. terrible employment rights, terrible anti-discrimination rights) that the rest of the world, or EU don't copy and aren't affected by.

The affects of SOPA passing would probably be a benefit to many countries, since more companies & jobs would come to their juristiction (some countries in EU do this with more favourable corporate tax laws, or look at Switzerland and Cayman Islands with banking laws.)

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Re:Wikipedia to Shut Down on Wednesday to Protest SOPA by dbaupp on Monday January 16, 2012 @09:37PM (#3473524)
None of those laws are at all related to censoring the Internet, which is a global network, so non-US citizens using US websites (like Facebook, Youtube, etc) are still affected.
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Re:Wikipedia to Shut Down on Wednesday to Protest SOPA by baddox on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @12:03AM (#3473812)
Tell that to the UK citizen that's being extradited to the USA for American copyright violations. Also, The Pirate Bay claimed that the 2006 raid on their servers resulted from pressure from the MPAA.
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