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A prediction: Members of Anonymous (or similar) will hack the home wifi of every congressman/woman related to this, and cause them to receive six "educational alerts" and then get cut off.

Soon thereafter the law will change or die.




That's not a bad idea, but I highly doubt congresscritters would be cut off. A simple phone call would likely get them exempted.


I don't know where things stand with this program, but back in the days when MediaDefender's email was leaked, one of those laid out a policy of not going after politicians and the like.


Perhaps fittingly, Anonymous has a similar policy of not going after journalists. Don't bite the hand that feeds you...




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