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leeoniya
on Dec 29, 2011
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SOPA Opponents May Go Nuclear
what would happen if Google, Bing (and by association Yahoo), made all SOPA-supporting properties disappear from organic and ad-sponsored searches.
my bet - the bill would be be dead within
days
, they have no obligation to service SOPA supporters.
JeffL
on Dec 29, 2011
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While that sounds cool, such blatant non-neutrality from search engines sounds almost as scary to me as what they're protesting.
redthrowaway
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Agreed. "Free speech (so long as we agree with it)" is exactly what we're opposing, here.
kevinh
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What we're (or at least I) am opposing is government regulation of free speech. Corporations are allowed to regulate speech on sites that they own.
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Fair enough. We can at least agree, I hope, that tactically it would be a poor choice.
Joakal
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The alternative is the bill making such companies non-neutral, for copyright industry interests.
tomjen3
on Dec 30, 2011
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That ended when they passed the DMCA.
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my bet - the bill would be be dead within days, they have no obligation to service SOPA supporters.