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I sent Wikipedia an editorial against their actions. Among my comments were:

Their actions to selectively censor their material based on something they wanted to block (i.e. the legislation) is doing exactly what you are protesting. They are worried the government will selectively choose to block something when they find a company illegally stealing creative intellectual property (such as Songs or Films). They don't want the government to be able to black out that content based on their criteria. But they are themselves blacking out content which was given to them FOR FREE to share with the world, not to be used as a political pawn. What about all the people who disagree with their actions who gave them creative intellectual property via their writing and editing and research contributions who also believe that their commercial work deserves protection from theives and that sites who use their work without paying for it WHILE PROFITING themselves SHOULD be shut down? It's quite hypocritical for Wikipedia to conduct information and content blackmail with our government who work FOR US trying to protect our intellectual property from massive theft because they are afraid that the government might black out content because they don't agree with what is being said or done on the site, and their reaction is to be guilty of doing exactly what they are afraid our government MIGHT do? Do you all see the problem here?

It's the same logic that would say "I am afraid that the White House security MIGHT kill an innocent bystander while trying to protect the president, so to protest, we are going to go ahead and KILL a random bystander to show what COULD happen?

It's insane and dangerous and just wrong. The public supplied that knowledge base expressly so the world could use the information when and however they wanted or needed. They are acting like a government by blacking it out, keeping it away from us all in a move that inflicts the same damage they fear MIGHT happen in an abusive move by the government, and while doing so, they are ALSO allowing murderers to roam free on white house grounds to terrorize the president at will, as their hope that the protection he is being offered will be removed (all in the "fear" that that security option MIGHT mess up and hurt or kill someone).

This is BS! -Brian