"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Inernet Censorship: Past, Present and Future
"Think SOPA and PIPA have been buried? Think again. The federal government is NOT going to give up until they get full congressional approval on internet censorship measures and open legal license to enforce those measures. For now, they have relegated their attacks to a relatively small number of sites, mostly dealing in downloadable media. However, as SOPA went down the tubes due to mass civil fury, the feds have come back more quietly with the ACTA, an international treaty which would actually create an unelected unaccountable regulating body like the WTO to govern the spread of "copyrighted material". This is nonsense of course."
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