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.

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