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Why climagic chose to highlight ways to circumvent the SOPA blackout (climagic.org)
1 point by sequoia on Jan 20, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



I'm not sure s/he was saying just this, but the point "since we love circumventing content protections/limitations so much, let's circumvent these!" is a funny/ironic/poignant one, in my opinion. Personally I disagreed with climagic's statement about "fighting anti-censorship censorship" ( @climagic you'd prefer to stay quiet and wait 'til there really IS no more wikipedia/reddit/worpdress.com, I suppose?), but I think the points he/she raises are valid. To what extent do we tell ourselves pirating is OK just out of personal expediency?

NOTE: I am not trying to restart/rehash the piracy debates of the past few days; I see this piece as a new angle/perspective on the issue.




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