On 18 January 2012 16:23, bob@racepacket.com wrote:
Otherwise, activitists will seek shutdowns for a variety of causes. For example, if Wikipedia were around in 2002, would people demand a shutdown to protest the start of the Iraq and Afganistan millitary conflicts? Those decisions cost many more lives than SOPA, but is that Wikipedia/WMF/WikiDC's role?
The difference is those wars did not pose an imminent threat to the mere *existence* of Wikipedia, unlike SOPA and PIPA.