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I'm voting against every fucker in my district who supports it. That's the only non-violent way.

Additionally, you could also boycott all the products of SOPA backers such as the MPAA or RIAA.

Unfortunately, every time I try to explain to my friends that I don't want to see a Pixar movie and would rather see a movie at an indie theater instead, no one seems to really understand what the problem with Pixar or Disney or Sony or UMG is.

It turns out, almost no one cares about the DMCA or SOPA or Protect-IP or anything that requires more than 30 seconds to explain. It is quite depressing...

Unfortunately corporations have become the new governments/armies, and so if you boycott every corporation that does something you don't like... you're screwed.

It's like telling people in Soviet Russia that if they don't like Communism, they should boycott the communist food lines. It's an unreasonable request. The free market is no longer free, corporate oligarchies might as well be called Soviet Planning Committees. (What the Soviets called their authoritarian overlords who owned and distributed all the resources)

> Additionally, you could also boycott all the products of SOPA backers such as the MPAA or RIAA.

And by that, you mean the artists and actors and directors who the MPAA and RIAA claim to speak for.

Are you trying to imply that by seeing an indie film, you are somehow not supporting artists and actors?

No, not in the least. I'm obviously referring to artists and actors that belong or work with these groups.

You have to let them know now before their vote.

But by then it will be too late.

Already too late, they're falling all over themselves to proclaim their ignorance and vote this into tragic existence.

For this bill, but it would show them that need to be representing their constituents.

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