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State of the Union CommentaryNews of the Bogus:
- Popular file-sharing website Megaupload shut down http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-01-19/megaupload-feds-shutdown/52678528/1
- Wikipedia traffic surged during SOPA blackout http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/19/10185978-wikipedia-traffic-surged-during-sopa-blackout
- The Pirate Bay: PIPA/SOPA Won't Stop Us! http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-pipasopa-wont-stop-us120117/
- SOPA & PIPA: The Pirate Bay Worried About The Internet, Not Itself http://www.webpronews.com/sopapipa-the-pirate-bay-worried-about-the-internet-not-itself-2012-01
- German courts are bucking the trend, ruling that ISPs shouldn't block illegal websites http://thenextweb.com/eu/2012/01/14/german-courts-are-bucking-the-trend-ruling-that-isps-shouldnt-block-illegal-websites/
- Plymouth-Canton school district banning books http://michiganradio.org/post/plymouth-canton-school-district-banning-books
Biggest Bogon Emitter: The MPAA (nominated by Dave Turcotte)
- SOPA lives—and MPAA calls protests an "abuse of power" http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/sopa-livesand-mpaa-calls-protests-an-abuse-of-power.ars
- SOPA and PIPA - Learn more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more
Idiot Extraordinaire: Matthew Yglesias http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/01/what_is_austrian_economics_and_why_is_ron_paul_keep_obsessed_with_it_.html
This Week's Quote: "Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately coordinated effort of many individuals, but of a process in which the individual plays a part which he can never fully understand." —F. A. Hayek