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Yeah, its the "day after the blackout" which I think is a favor to the MPAA/RIAA folks. "Let's erase these 'sopa is bad' stories from the nightly news and replace them with a good evil pirates tale."


I "like" how the news is plastered all over the Internet that the "government" has taken down Megaupload. Like small children, fascinated by the sock puppet, forgetting the hand that actually moves it.

It's very clear now, we live in a plutocracy. Big corporations are above the law in every single way that matters.


> we live in a plutocracy

I prefer the word "synarchism", as used by Fairbank and King:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synarchy#China




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