This is a prime example how fighting something can simply give it more eyeballs. I just heard about this through HN. Maybe we can just ignore people who don’t agree with us…
This is not a movie that offends a religious group that gets riled up and tells people to not watch it which only encourages people to watch it. These are state laws that affect everyone in the state.
Ignoring horendous laws is not the answer. They need to be discussed, and then have people get motivated to have them changed.
Hopefully most people would recoil in horror at seeing a form to snitch on your friends and family. The .net and .com site should both be free to compete in the marketplace of ideas.
Except for the people in favor of it. They are probably giddy with anticipation about being able to fill it out for the first time. Not sure where you live, but in Texas, this is being cheered by those in favor. --Under his eye
Where are you from? In Texas, it's all in the news right now. The people that are for this new law are singing praises. This isn't something being swept under the rug hoping nobody notices it. They are advertising it.
>Likely the fact that Godaddy
It's more likely the people in favor of this wouldn't know what Godaddy was except maybe when their preacher railed against their ad campaigns from the pulpit.
> You can't make bad ideas go away by pretending they don't exist.
Who is advocating to pretend like this. If that was the case, we'd all be sitting back hoping nobody found out about this. Instead, those opposed to this law are making as much noise as possible.