Was the Warrior SOPA justified

I understand that this is a privately owned forum to which I have belonged for 10 years or more but I question if the full lock down was justified.

Now I appreciate all the hard work that goes into maintaining this site so I am not overly critical of what was done on the Warrior forum however many other sites had a lock down but had a link down the bottom so as not to affect its clients.

For example I think Namecheap took a lot more rational approach.


It seems the big concern is that the Govt would get the power to just shut down a site and cause a lot of heartache if you were just a law abiding person who might have made a mistake or there was some mis understanding.

Funnily enough that is what happened yesterday when many sites simply refused their customers entry.

I understand that this was to give us a taste of what could potentially happen but why use the same tactics to make a point.

I think what sites like namecheap did was a lot more responsible.

This is not just happening in the US as it has been happening in many other countries for years. Its just that they don't have to tell the people they just do it.

In Australia they are trying to pass a similar sort of bill and I imagine in many other western countries as well.

Anyhow it was good to see the owners of this forum take a stand but it would have been nice to see something a little more creative and not follow the same tactics that they were objecting to.

What are your thoughts?