[pexaizix]

EU busybodies are unaccountable, unelected and practically live in another dimension. There's no way something like the SOPA protests could work here.

[isostatic]

MEPs are elected. They are accountable via votes every 5 years.

[c3o]

In fact, they already did: The ACTA protests.

[rmoriz]

True. But mostly due to anti-americanism.

I was strongly against ACTA because it was kind of a black box, I supported one of the biggest events in Germany against it.

But I had hopes that we could change the way such big contracts are getting designed and agreed upon. How naively I was...

[ionised]

> True. But mostly due to anti-americanism.

I'd love to see you prove this.

[rmoriz]

Just listen to members of the left party or the pirate party. That was also a reason I left and quit all my political work.