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Comment by mindstab | Hacker News Reader

How? It makes it really really easy to be knocked offline which I suspect would make it hard to continue work on a startup. For instance

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People working on startups are resourceful. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to find free wifi/3g/get cable/adsl from another provider etc etc etc

I agree the law is stupid and ill thought out and puts the whole idea of innocent until proven guilty out the window, but technology is hard for some people like unelected politicians to grasp. So they mess up, and make stupid laws.

Meanwhile, people just sidestep and make the laws useless and irrelevant.

Suppose you called your site say "hacker news" and some local councilor decided that "hacker" was offensive - under this law they can simply delete your domain registration.

Then you'd post about it on twitter+reddit and the whole baying mob of sheep that compose the modern internet would track down said councilor and make their life a living hell forever.

Not everyone is so popular, and not all audiences are so political.

Exactly. And that kind of action shouldn't be the only way of enforcing your rights.

Especially since the Dark Side can afford to hire a LOT more lawyers, who are second only to politicians in their ability to make your life a living hell.

Yeah that councillor would never be able to visit reddit again. That would totally stick it to them.

Well they might have to change their username, or just never visit it, ...

Said councillor probably wouldn't be on the internet. Or he'd only check his email once a week and wouldn't notice.

People on reddit+twitter hunt people down in real life all the time.

Only if they hurt animals.

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