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No it is not. His point is: get to the root of the problem. And he notices that it has to get worse before people understand this.

I totally agree with him. It's like the bugs get fixed, shitty lasts forever. Most of the time fixing a bug means getting tot the root of the problem.

I think that the root of the problem is not that generic "people" are unaware of anything(in this case that SOPA ). I think that the problem is money in politics through lobbyists, they sustain at the top of the hierarchy the corporations' will against what common sense wants or even urges.

Stopping SOPA isn't meaningless. Hopefully it'll give people pause before they try again.

But, yes, Americans, you desperately need to fix your money-in-politics problem. That's the underlying issue for all this shit.

The sad thing is, it's much harder to undo legislation than to pass it.