User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Battle for the Net: Internet Slowdown/@comment-26842514-20140910230403/@comment-173.168.30.119-20140910232331

What about the people intelligent enough to realise you all are just misdirecting your anger at "inanimate" government agencies and trying to claim there is some deep seated assault on "Freedom" rather than a maturation of law. Don't ISP's have the "Freedom" to do whatever the hell they want, is "freedom" only reserved for people who claim they're repressed by "Big Corporations"?

This is just about people feeling "important" for spreading misinformation and creating pandemonium.

Corporations will walk all over you, but a claim that because X potentially can allow them, thus X is bad is clearly ignorant. Guns can potentially allow people to kill other people, guns are bad. Cars can potentially be driven by drunks, cars are bad. The potential for abuse is meaningless, yet is what the whole argument is about.

So feel important, but don't keep acting like there is a big war happening, supporting people for protesting laws on the "potential" for harm rather than actual harm. (And learn what slippery slope means and WHY it is a LOGICAL FALLACY! It is quite hilarious when people say "But the slippery slope" like they're making a sound argument...)