With Wikipedia dark today in protest, here’s a quote from Tim Bray’s blog today:
In the big picture, the proposed legislation will be ineffective at preventing sleazebags and broke undergrads from watching movies without paying for them, but it will significantly damage the usefulness of the Internet and provide extremely dangerous openings for censorship and for incumbent oligopolists to resist useful disruption. History teaches us that these openings will be exploited to the maximum extent possible, and in the case of this legislation the maximum extent is frightening.
I really don’t have anything to add to that…
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