SOPA is a very bad thing. We've heard it every day for weeks here and everywhere else techies hang out.<p>I'm sure I'm not alone in having already signed all the petitions, already written to all my representatives, already spread the word to my personal network so other people can do the same.<p>At this point, what can I do but watch it happen?
Okay I'm not going to attempt to support/defend SOPA but I have some serious questions:<p>Why do all of these SOPA articles on HN fail to mention that this bill specifically targets "foreign" sites?<p>They all mention a possible threat against youtube, facebook etc, but since these are "domestic" sites aren't they excluded?<p>Is there a particular definition or qualification in the bill that I missed that would widen the scope to include these existing sites?<p>(I do acknowledge that a potential youtube/facebook competitor overseas IS affected by SOPA, so again, I'm not saying SOPA is good, as it should be obvious it isn't. But lets bash it based on facts not conjecture or, worse, emotion)
I'm no lawyer, by any means but this SOPA bill sounds to me like it's proposed by either very naive or very devious people. Naive in the sense that this whole SOPA thing seems to be wide open to abuse or devious in that this whole SOPA thing seems to be wide open to abuse...