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There's no good place to say this, but that URL bothers me every time I see it. What the hell are "Rouge Websites?" I think they meant something else. :-P



I haven't actually read the text of SOPA, but I have this amusing fantasy of Anonymous having planted a congressional staffer to do a global search-and-replace through the entire law. Then, when it passes, the following can occur:

EvilMegaCorp : Remove this rogue domain from your DNS immediately.

DNS : Sorry, we're not going to do that.

EvilMegaCorp : But you are legally required to, per SOPA!

DNS : Actually, SOPA only requires us to de-link rouge websites. The Engrish-branded knockoff Asian cosmetics industry has really been decimated by this.

EvilMegaCorp : << explodes in a fit of pique >>

Sigh. A nerd can dream...


Clearly, they mean websites that are red. Red means communist. We must protect ourselves from the threat of communism.


Make up America!!1 Every year we lose tens of thousands of dollars to counterfeit online cosmetics!

Fight the powder! We need SOAP to unmascara the pirates!




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