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Comment by johngalt | Hacker News Reader

tldr; The only way to stop the mob is to pay more protection money.

I think it's naive and dangerously idealistic for the tech community to sit idly by, decrying the state of legislative affairs and refusing to play the game for the sake of honor or some arbitrary sense of intellectual superiority. I'm not saying that the situation isn't shitty or that we shouldn't work to fix what is clearly a broken system, but the IP lobby is playing for keeps here and we're throwing around open letters and hashtags.

All you can do throwing money at the problem is buying time. The MPAA/RIAA/etc. will throw more money than us, because they can. It will be endless. They can create a new bill that is almost the same as SOPA, and then we would need to throw money against it again. And again, and again, and again.

If someone raises money to lobby the congress against SOPA, I'll contribute, but just to show that it won't work.

who is john galt?

who is Jason Roberts?

Someone who thinks stopping SOPA is impossible, but on his Google+ page has the tagline: "No matter how intimidating the odds, always remain undaunted."

Way to stick to your guns, Jason.

I do agree in part with him though. Google, Facebook, et al. have been too quiet. Anti-SOPA propaganda should be somewhere highly visable on their websites. They need to at least spread the word about it.

Jason Roberts is co host of the TechZing tech startup podcast.

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