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So shutting off information services is evil, and we're going to show it by committing the same evil? By that token we should teach everyone how bad genocide is by executing a random member of their family.

We should certainly get people's attention by doing something very overt like replacing every article with a big dark SOPA message, but there really should still be a way to click through to the information.

> We should certainly get people's attention by doing something very overt like replacing every article with a big dark SOPA message, but there really should still be a way to click through to the information.

That's fine for us mega-nerds, but what about everyone else?




There's a philosophical distinction between suicide and murder and martyrdom. Just like there is between being thrust into a furnace and setting yourself on fire.

I actually don't know what it's going to be like to work on Wednesday without Wikipedia. But I think it's in all our interests to find out and put a face on these bills.


> By that token we should teach everyone how bad genocide is by executing a random member of their family.

Uh, no. That's not the same token at all.


Looks like we've reached Godwin's Law. That's didn't take too long.


<pedant intensity="100%">Godwin's law only covers the invocation of Hitler or the third reich, not random genocide.</pedant>




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