| January 19th, 2012 |
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SOPA/PIPA is a problem. I get that. I don't have a huge problem with the sites that are throwing up things about it which then let you get to the actual site.
However, as a non-American citizen who therefore can't actually do anything to encourage American lawmakers not to do this stupid, stupid thing, the sites that are blacking out completely can bite me.
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So, the lurkers do *not* support me by e-mail - at least one person was somewhat annoyed by my suggestion that the SOPA blackout thing is annoying to we lesser races of the world.
This, in turn, is also making me annoyed. How bloody US-centric does your worldview have to be to decide that something like en.wikipedia.org, for example, is totally America's and that therefore if America has a political problem, then we have no right to be irritated by having Wikipedia blocked off?
Because obviously no-one from outside the USA has ever contributed or donated to Wikipedia.
And we're all absolutely obligated to believe that it's our problem that the American people have spent the last two hundred years selling their political process more and more completely to the highest bidder, even though we can't do jack shit about it, and Americans could but, on balance, don't.
Obviously.Current Mood:  annoyed
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The Daily Show has a new correspondent - Jessica Williams.
I have no idea what her accent is - American, obviously, but, that's all I can pick offhand. But I really like it for no reason I can place specifically.
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