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Kaspersky Quits BSA Over SOPA Support

Posted by Unknown on from the don't-copy-that-intertube dept.

First time accepted submitter Cmdrm writes with an article about Kaspersky Lab quitting the BSA over their (now lukewarm) support of SOPA. From the press release: "Kaspersky Lab would like to clarify that the company did not participate in the elaboration or discussion of the SOPA initiative and does not support it. Moreover, the company believes that the SOPA initiative might actually be counter-productive for the public interest, and decided to discontinue its membership in the BSA as of January 1, 2012.'"

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  1. Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Didn't know The Boy Scouts of America had a dog in this fight.

    1. Re:Wow by jd · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, now they're banned from going into the woods with strange men, ship-to-ship combat with pirates is their one hope of getting a decent badge. Just don't tell them that these aren't the pirates with ships, you'd break their hearts.

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      It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
  2. Pun time! by Shadyman · · Score: 4, Funny

    So would that make this a Sopa-Opera?

    1. Re:Pun time! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      that's just sopa-thetic, it is

  3. In Former Soviet Russia (c'mon you must have ,,, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    seen this coming), Amerikanski kapitalist fascism too totalitarian by far and a cow.

    What a conetree...

  4. Ouch. by MrEricSir · · Score: 3, Funny

    You know you've taken your censorship too far when the Russians are telling you to dial it down.

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