A lot of media have compared SOPA to the Great Firewall of China. While they are quite different in my opinion (and not the point of this post), I wonder why Google doesn't threaten to pull out of US because of SOPA. Google could then ignore this non-sense and find the "Hong Kong" of United States (maybe Canada?), and recreate the free web there.<p>Maybe we can get enough sites behind this to send a message to Congress.
Google, as a company, is based in the US. Nearly all their man-power is there, and a lot (don't know about majority) of their servers. As a company, it is really impossible to stop being in the US.<p>Google were capable of moving out of China as they weren't very invested there and it didn't upset there investors.
If they do that, the stock price of Google will plunge, and the CEO and directors of Google will be sued to oblivion. The vacuum created by a Google pullout will be happily filled by other tech companies (Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook) who, with less suicidal impulse, would be more than thrilled with such opportunities, even doing so with a straight face of "doing what's the best for our people". What a huge price to pay for "sending a message to Congress"...