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Could SOPA and PIPA have hindered our State Department’s democracy promotion efforts by silencing critics of repressive governments abroad?
“There was another, related, but underappreciated potential consequence of SOPA and PIPA: damage to U.S. foreign policy objectives. For one, there’s the issue of perception…How will the United States look internationally, advocates of Internet freedom argue, if our nation’s own anti-piracy laws undermine the fundamental characteristics of the Internet?”
- Pierce Stanley, “How SOPA Could Have Hindered Our Democracy Promotion Efforts”
For more on the aftermath of last week’s SOPA protests, read TNR Legal Affairs Editor Jeffrey Rosen on why SOPA was a bad solution to a real problem.
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If you’re a commentator and an analyst — and I’m a commentator and analyst — say you’re a commentator and analyst. If you’re an activist, say you’re an activist. But to pretend that you’re a newsperson, to pretend that you’re giving a fair and balanced view of things — when, in fact, you have no credentials to do that and your only history is to engage in activism, is to engage in politics, is to engage in propaganda — then that’s an unfair portrayal of the news to the American people.
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