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dannyr on May 21, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: White House petition to bring down paywalls on tax...

If the internet population wasn't behind it, I don't think Google or Wikipedia would matter much.

The noise generated on Twitter and Facebook made politicians take a closer look on SOPA and companies voice their opposition to it.

cookiecaper on May 21, 2012 [–]

I don't think that Google and Wikipedia used the number of signatures on the petition on whitehouse.gov as a major component in their decisions to come out against SOPA.

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