[indexzero]

I don’t like censorship as much as the next guy, but to compare PIPA/SOPA to the Civil Rights movement is insulting.

Don’t get me wrong this is important, but it’s not in the same boat as destroying the toxic thinking “you’re not as much of a person as I am”

[lootsauce]

I lumped SOPA/PIPA together with the arab spring and OWS, its a broader discussion. But to address SOPA/PIPA, I do consider freedom of speech a pretty important civil liberty, the bills literally wanted to achieve the same level of control that Libya and China have over the internet. Now consider how essential these tools are for political action, how they empower individuals. There will be an ongoing battle to determine who controls that power. It IS a civil liberty issue and I believe it is going to be THE defining struggle for this century.