User blog comment:Cagelirious/SOPA and why sites went black today...(political on nature)/@comment-3101374-20120118234246/@comment-4169456-20120123061737

The more I look at these laws the more I see that they are meant to control the internet and not just for copyright, The internet is run on piracy, pretty much every pic here is technically illegally but its too hard to censor pics so they don't but they could use these laws to. This is why it's scary. Say they don't like something on MSNBC.com well all they have to do is find one image that is not legal and they can shut the site down.

And people overseas are not safe from this because of our countries power and the fact that a lot of big sites are from here.