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by HardyLeung 5278 days ago
If they do that, the stock price of Google will plunge, and the CEO and directors of Google will be sued to oblivion. The vacuum created by a Google pullout will be happily filled by other tech companies (Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook) who, with less suicidal impulse, would be more than thrilled with such opportunities, even doing so with a straight face of "doing what's the best for our people". What a huge price to pay for "sending a message to Congress"...
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the how is irrelevant for this tasty speculation.

they may move only hosting outside and refuse access from the US, if not from their US corporate network.

IMHO, the more interesting thing to think about is the resulting wake up call. would be nice to have to use underground proxies to be able to access free services hosted at some place like Sweden. Would at least not give a false sense of political freedom if SOPA passes as is.