User blog comment:Bovell/We stand with Wikimedia - Stop PROTECT IP and SOPA/@comment-173.17.82.73-20111228183533/@comment-1191892-20111228213451

Actually, there are forms of illegal speech. For example, if I threw a black plumber out of my house after screaming racial epithets at him, the government could arrest me for it. The government can and has shut down websites dedicated to the sharing of bomb-making information and child pornography because they violate local laws. The question is how far these powers should extend, not whether they should exist; they do.