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January 19, 2012 01:08 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Xa5XBl_LIp4/sopapipa-arent-a-failure-to.html
SOPAPIPA aren't a failure to understand the Internet; they arise from self-interested fear of free speech
Writing in the Guardian, Dan Gillmor argues that SOPA and PIPA aren't foolishly extreme because their proponents don't understand the net; rather, they are extreme because their proponents understand that the net breaks the monopoly of the powerful over communications and organizing. So, why do they make unsupportable statements? Because they don't dare make an [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Xa5XBl_LIp4/sopapipa-arent-a-failure-to.html
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