[fuzzylizard]

So voluntary blackouts in protest of SOPA are to be stopped because they are dangerous gimmicks, but a bill that will allow the government to blackout websites isn't?

How exactly are these people so blind to this kind of obvious contradiction? It completely baffles me that any intelligent human can see this bill as a good thing.

It also scares me that politicians and lobby groups are using the idea of protecting "American" jobs as one of the main selling points for getting this bill past. It is far to obvious that American hasn't realized that to survive in this world one must join the global community and not either separate oneself from it nor try to rule it.

[pyre]

  > How exactly are these people so blind to
  > this kind of obvious contradiction

It's being spoken by someone that jumped from Congress to top of the MPAA. I don't think he has much in the way of scruples.