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The opposition had much better spin. Many people violently oppose the horrible things that they were told SOPA would do. I'm against SOPA as written, but having read it I'm not nearly as passionate in my position as many people are. I think theft SHOULD have consequences and also I think SOPA needed to be more specific and clear.
I think that with SOPA the opposition just did a much better job of spin. Many, if not most, people believe the bill had draconian stuff on it that just plain wasn't there. Practically noone seems to know that under SOPA nothing would happen unless a judge ruled that the site is dedicated to nothing but piracy.
The anti-SOPA spinsters successfully convinced people that if someone posted a comment on your blog that linked to infringing material the site could be taken down. That's simply false, but the idea (lie) enraged a lot of people. I guess that's OK because it was a bad law anyway. Not NEARLY as bad as people who never read it think, but bad nevertheless.
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