User blog comment:Subtank/SOPA and how it affects the internet/@comment-1091639-20111117194621/@comment-189012-20111117202849

I think the issue is far greater than cooperation between countries or moving servers. Sites that are operated within the US borders are more susceptible to the US legislation and will not be hold accountable for those outside; that said, companies that operate sites like Google, Facebook, Tumblr and so on will have to comply with the bill. Such compliance would be, in the case of search engines like Google and Yahoo!, to remove sites URLs from their search catalogues/databases (though one can still access sites via IP... but who remembers which IP corresponds to which site), while normal sites such as Tumblr and Facebook would either be shut-down and be inaccessible not only to US citizens but the entire world or simply have their infringing content removed... now the emphasis of the bill is on the former (shutting-down the site).