Gone Mild

When I last posted on this blog, I had directed my attention to Claire McCaskill’s support of indefinite detention of Americans without due process, and called her out on her cowardice.  At the same time, I read that Claire McCaskill refused to announce opposition to SOPA/PIPA.   (Some sites are mistakenly claiming that she was a cosponsor, but she was not.)  Of course, I immediately decided to shut my website down as a protest of her apparent silent preference for corporate profits over internet freedom, and, yesterday, other websites joined in my protest.  Even though Ms. McCaskill never actually came out in opposition to SOPA/PIPA, some of her corporate fellow-travellers did, with even Senator Roy Blunt withdrawing his support.

(In a way, I have a grudging admiration for the fact that when Claire McCaskill sells out, she stays sold even when the rest of the rats are jumping the corporate ship like Italian captains.)

Thanks to this site and a few others of similar stature like Craigslist and Wikipedia, it appears that Claire McCaskill’s attempts to harness the internet for Rupert Murdoch have been foiled.  (I’ll admit that the late-coming websites’ decision to actually notify people what they were doing was a nifty addition to my strategy of silence.)

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