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37. Opposing that bill didn't have anything to do with being anti-union

If that bill had passed, DU likely would not exist. SOPA would have replaced the DMCA's safe harbor provision and would have made owners of web communities like DU responsible for policing the posts of every single user for copyright violations. The bill would have allowed law enforcement to literally shut down entire domains if a single user posted some kind of copyrighted content on that domain.

There was broad bipartisan support AND OPPOSITION to the bill, and we were not exactly outliers in opposition to it. When I refreshed my memory of this bill from its Wikipedia page, it turned out that organizations such as EFF and the ACLU were opposed to it, as were the American Library Association, who said it could expose libraries to prosecution. Nancy Pelosi was opposed to it, as were most major Internet companies, including Wikipedia.