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Originally Posted by stonetools
I have an 80 per cent confidence level that SOPA-PIPA will pass later on this year with some amendments. Every major player in the debate believes that foreign piracy represents a threat ( the techno-hipsters argue that piracy poses no threat to the content industries,but their arguments have been rejected by even Google).
I expect that an anti foreign piracy law will pass, with compromises over the safe harbor provisions, which is what Google and the other Silicon Valley companies are fighting hardest about.
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Now, if you'll all look over here, you can see a primitive internet poster using a subtle strawman to, in one fell swoop, disregard all of the legitimate concerns of opponents of SOPA and PIPA (attempts in the early 21st century to provide the U.S. government with censorship powers over the internet). The use of this pejorative had the additional effect of reinforcing the primitive poster's central anti-piracy meme, and also helped him/her reduce any cognitive dissonance he or she may have felt at opposing viewpoints.
Prior to neural augmentation, this sort of argument would likely have been at least somewhat convincing.
Moving on to our next exhibit...