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TED Takes on SOPA: Why it Would Create a ‘Consumption-Only Internet’

Clay Shirky

“The threat is the inversion of this burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like theives at every moment we’re given the freedom to create, to produce or to share, and the people who provide those capabilities to us […] are in the business of having to police us.”

Guardian article: Clay Shirky, Sopa and Pipa would create a consumption-only internet