@OnlineDesign -

Okayyy - all you who are actually following this important discussion - make sure you have read the post at the top of the page, and are clear on what this is about ... and what it's not directly about. :)

To review quickly, this is about a WordPress plugin that you install to make your site become a proxy server, expressly to enable Piratebay to continue illegal operations, clandestinely.

Now I will go ahead and touch on what this post is NOT actually about, but about which many are of course concerned - SOPA/PIPA. We did good, agitating against this bad legislation. It was harmful to the Intenet ... it seems possible to me, it may have been designed & intended to be so.

But if we now embrace tools designed & intended to subvert lawful court orders (to halt Piratebay's illegal activity), that is the wrong response to SOPA/PIPA, and those other Bills that are coming down the pipeline behind it.

Indeed, doing this makes us the same as those Occupy Oakland people who we see going bonkers on the Law and tearing up the town. Taking their anger out, not on Wall Street and Fat Cats, but on regular people and local communities.

I'm sympathetic to the principles behind Occupy, but their behavior couldn't be a bigger threat their own cause, if it was designed by undercover agents who's job it is to ensure that their Movement dies in infancy.

If you're good with WordPress & the Internet ending up on the Occupy road ... if you're cool with handing major ammunition to those who want SOPA/PIPA (and a puny Internet) ... then go to the top of this page and click on that plugin.