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Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by criddell on Friday September 12, 2025 @09:44AM (#45222085)
Couldn't agree more. Blocking SOPA / PIPA a decade or so ago was a nice reminder that when enough people speak up, bad laws can be avoided.
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Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by righthand on Friday September 12, 2025 @10:59AM (#45222854)
At the same time the legislature snuck in turning the US into a police state into the 2012 Defense spending bill. So while SOPA and PIPA was defeated, people did not pay “enough” attention in the end.

If we had that kind of reaction to making your internet worse as we did to making our rights worse we would be better off.

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