“Fellow Reckoners who’ve been following the story will remember that the raid occurred mere hours after the widespread global Internet community backlash against the US government’s proposed PIPA and SOPA laws, which threatened to strangle the precious lines of communication opened up to individuals through precisely the kinds of innovation like that of Mr. Dotcom. It was, as Orwell might have said, the image of a government jackboot stamping on a human face.”
http://dailyreckoning.com/dotcom-bites-back/
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