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    "title": "SOPA: Yet Another Reason To Keep Government Small",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2011-12-17 16:27:55 UTC",
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        "2011-12-17 16:27:55 UTC"
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>A government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything away from you \u00e2\u0080\u0093 including your Internet freedom.</p>\n<p>...</p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u0080\u0099s bizarre and entertaining to hear people who yesterday were all about allegedly benign and intelligent government interventions suddenly discovering that in practice, what they get is stupid and vicious legislation that has been captured by a venal and evil interest group.</p>\n<p>Yeah, no shit? How\u00e2\u0080\u00a6how do they avoid noticing that in reality it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s like this all the time?</p>\n<p>...</p>\n<p>So here\u00e2\u0080\u0099s a clue: the only way to keep your freedom \u00e2\u0080\u0093 on the Internet or anywhere else \u00e2\u0080\u0093 is to defend everyone else\u00e2\u0080\u0099s freedom as well, by keeping your government tiny and starved and rigidly constrained in what it can do. Otherwise, the future you\u00e2\u0080\u0099re begging for is SOPAs without end.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Please, read the whole thing. It's short.  Via <em><a href=\"http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4009\">Armed and Dangerous \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archive \u00c2\u00bb SOPA and the oblivious</a></em>.</p>\n"
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