[Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia

[Marc A. Pelletier]

On 14/12/2011 2:04 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
> I am genuinely not anti-american. The logic here does escape me though. 

 From a lawmaker's point of view, this is clear enough: US-based 
websites are reachable through the usual legal means and thus can be 
shut down with local intervention instead of having to disappear them 
through the infrastructure.  You can simply sue them to death without 
having a pesky foreign government refusing to accept the decisions of 
the media giants.

-- Coren / Marc