Certainly I'm not making a airtight case as to why SOPA needs to pass. I'm suggesting that SOPA passing wouldn't necessarily be the worst thing to ever happen to us.
If it causes us to rethink some assumptions we have about the internet (the people in charge are benevolent) which have historically caused problems, (There has been attack after attack where the attacker pretends to be the DNS server and because clients blindly trust DNS servers the attack succeeds without question) maybe the internet will come out of SOPA stronger than ever before.
Certainly I'm not making a airtight case as to why SOPA needs to pass. I'm suggesting that SOPA passing wouldn't necessarily be the worst thing to ever happen to us.
If it causes us to rethink some assumptions we have about the internet (the people in charge are benevolent) which have historically caused problems, (There has been attack after attack where the attacker pretends to be the DNS server and because clients blindly trust DNS servers the attack succeeds without question) maybe the internet will come out of SOPA stronger than ever before.