[sirclueless]

So what you're saying is that after a decimation of their economy, Germans were angry at the economic elite in their country. They then listened to the entertainment industry's pressures to remove their freedom of speech, and other civil rights.

Sounds about right.

[slurgfest]

No, a really important feature of fascism is this hate component which keeps being omitted.

SOPA sucks, but it isn't driven by an ideology of the nation's renewal through purges of some undesirable class, return to cultural and religious fundamentals of the nation, pressing need to defeat communism and prove the nation's glory with war and occupations...

Whether or not the US is moving toward fascism in some way, SOPA is incidental to that - SOPA is nothing more than a big present to certain industries

[bluekeybox]

> a really important feature of fascism is this hate component which keeps being omitted.

Yeah -- it's like an elephant in the room and no one among those who are the first to bring up comparisons between the U.S. and fascist states talks about it. I wonder why.

> SOPA is nothing more than a big present to certain industries

That is the best way to think about it -- it's akin to government pork in a way.