Comments on: “SOPA: An Architecture for Censorship”

By: Jerryskids

Jerryskids — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 20:51:27 +0000

With the legal framework in place, expanding it to cover other conduct .....

That is pretty much the definition of our government at work.

By: ps

ps — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:11:35 +0000

or websites that are anti-lawyer would be target no. 2.

By: David Eggers

David Eggers — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:29:35 +0000

I can already see the economic opportunities this law will create. Companies you can pay to monitor the web sites of people you don’t like for copyrighted images, videos, icons, and links to report to the authorities.

By: Anonymous Attorney

Anonymous Attorney — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:54:06 +0000

Or websites accused of being “racist” or “anti-Semitic”… that would probably be Target No. 1.

By: mojo

mojo — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:02:39 +0000

“Why, that’s just CRAZY talk!”
— Famous Last Words

By: Ayuh

Ayuh — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:29:38 +0000

There are at least two ways around SOPA already written and available: http://lifehacker.com/5869665/desopa-for-firefox-bypasses-sopa-dns-blocking

SOPA will only work on those too tech illiterate to install an extension. Quite likely browsers will simply incorporate such devices so that even the tech illiterate will evade SOPA.

By: Mannie

Mannie — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:55:17 +0000

Or shutting down rival political websites because of some alleged copyrighted content.

By: J.T. Wenting

J.T. Wenting — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:40:59 +0000

or an attorney general who sees his favourite candidate for the presidency getting bad ratings bans blogs and other websites from opposition groups…