Nilay Patel hits it hard.
SOPA and PIPA are the effective equivalent of blowing up every road, bridge, and tunnel in New York to keep people from getting to one bootleg stand in Union Square — but leaving the stand itself alone.
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… at its simplest level, SOPA is a kneejerk reaction to the fundamental nature of the internet, which was explicitly designed to ignore outmoded and inconvenient concepts like the continuing existence of the United States. Because US copyright holders generally can’t drag a foreign web site into US courts to get them to stop stealing and distributing their work, SOPA allows them to go after the ISPs, ad networks, and payment processors that are in the United States. It is a law borne of the blind logic of revenge: the movie studios can’t punish the real pirates, so they are attacking the network instead.
A neuronal growth cone expanding in cell culture, captured by fluorescence microscopy.
Image by Dylan Burnette, Yale University.
That’s what I call taking one for the team. These fire ants create a living bridge to transfer their colony out of floodwaters.
(photos from 6legs2many)
Via It's Okay To Be Smart
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