The internets were ablaze this week with SOPA stuff, and in near-inferno around GoDaddy supporting (but that is a different post altogether). And while it is nice that the geek community is up in arms, its a bit concerning how little mainstream media attention it is receiving. Even more so from the media up here since Canada is in ARIN and so [apparently] falls under the US government’s jurisdiction. Not to mention the the copycat law that will be introduced using the American one as ‘proof’ of its good-idea-ness

But even if (when) the beast that is SOPA gets enacted there will be ways to get around it. Heck, there already are a couple plugins for Firefox that do just that. Which leads me to an idea.

We Believe in an Open Web. And we’re dedicated to keeping it free, open and accessible to all

This is the main text on the Mozilla website. What if they just included these plugins, or the tricks that they do in the Firefox browser. The day that it gets presidential assent is when it should should go into Aurora.

But this post isn’t to call out [just] Mozilla and put them in political bind (since they are incorporated in the US). Google has been just as strong in their opposition and they control the Chromium/Chrome browser. And apparently Microsoft opposes it too, and of course they control Internet Explorer.

Of course, Google and Microsoft could give a damn about the Open Web…