SOPA would set up US website blacklisting, require search engine censorship, and divide the Internet into “domestic” and “foreign” sites.
In L.P. Hartley’s novel, The Go-Between, he wrote, “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” When Hartley wrote his novel of adolescent sexual awakening he knew nothing of the internet. Had he know he might have been shocked just how quickly the past became a foreign place.
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