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by tptacek 4811 days ago
If the text of the bill doesn't matter, the text of every other privacy-related bill doesn't matter either, and we can skip all these pointless arguments and let them pass SOPA. After all, they're just going to use milk safety regulations to combat piracy.
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It's not that the text of the bill is COMPLETELY irrelevant. It's that the big companies will use their newfound powers in ways that fall into a gray area in the bill and of course the government will choose not to prosecute them for doing so, or judges will allow it because it's a gray area and not EXPLICITLY disallowed.