it’s january 18th, and a bunch of sites are blacked out because of sopa and pipa. and they are right. go read about it on google or wikipedia and come back.
the thing is the us government already signed a much worse law in to effect earlier this year. the ndaa made it possible for the us government to arrest and indefinitely imprison american citizens without a trial.
how, how, how, how is this ok? how did this not get giant, massive protests on the internet?
and how is gitmo still open?
and how are we, as in america, still torturing people?
sopa and pipa are bad, but holy shit there are all these things right now that are terrifyingly bad. where are the adults? the legacy of 9/11 is looking more and more like the cowardly response americans had to terrorism. grow the fuck up and be adults.
anyway, sopa and pipa are terrible laws by terrible children who don’t understand what the fuck they are doing other than accepting checks from hollywood. contact these children and tell them to grow up. this is at least a start.
I’m going to make two equally uncomfortable suggestions in response to the central question of your post:
1) Deep down inside even avowed lefties are also kinda racist and kinda scared of terrorists and kinda don’t mind letting human beings rot in jail indefinitely as long as those human beings are brown and/or might have taken action against the interests of the US
2) Deep down inside even avowed lefties care more about their damn internet than they do about human rights. Which, I mean, see: suggestion #1
I can’t really imagine any other scenarios that adequately answer your question.
there are a lot of dynamics in play… but something like gitmo being open and people being arrested without any kind of cause or trial should probably be represented in the google logo the 364 days a year they aren’t blacking out.
so… yeah, maybe. god that’s disappointing.