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EU busybodies are unaccountable, unelected and practically live in another dimension. There's no way something like the SOPA protests could work here.

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MEPs are elected. They are accountable via votes every 5 years.

In fact, they already did: The ACTA protests.

True. But mostly due to anti-americanism.

I was strongly against ACTA because it was kind of a black box, I supported one of the biggest events in Germany against it.

But I had hopes that we could change the way such big contracts are getting designed and agreed upon. How naively I was...

> True. But mostly due to anti-americanism.

I'd love to see you prove this.

Just listen to members of the left party or the pirate party. That was also a reason I left and quit all my political work.

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