User blog comment:Craiglpalmer/SOPA and PIPA Situation Summary/@comment-4791684-20120120061747/@comment-1025281-20120120232454

This is a wiki where the views of all are welcomed. If you have a right to post an opinion, I equally have a right to post my own – and I'm not going to give up that right simply because I'm being attacked.

So – the difference is that Wikia reserves the moral right to decide on which direction it should take. "Community site" or not, Wikia's strategic direction is ultimately up to them. Like all companies, it answers to a profit motivation only, which means sometimes (unfortunately), the "community" loses. Congress, on the other hand, is an institution of a government which is "of the people, by the people, for the people". In all ways, it is answerable not to a profit motivation, or even the best outcome for economic direction, but the will of the people.

Do you elect Wikia's staff members? Absolutely not. But Americans do vote for who gets to govern them, and herein lies the difference.