Wikipedia, Reddit and other sites have been disabled today to protest some piece of legislation in some obscure banana republic. The banana republic is populous and rich, so many Internet sites get founded and hosted there. But the banana republic has a history of trying to fuck over the Internet, so all smart sites move their hosting to other countries that don’t hate freedom.

I don’t really care what’s going on in the banana republic because I’ve written it off. I wish the companies that run the Internet would simply relocate rather than annoying me with their provincial concerns. After all, you don’t see these kind of protests over the Great Firewall of China, even though that affects more people.

“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” – John Gilmore

Yes, it would be very sad if the many residents of the banana republic, who share most of my culture, were not able to fully participate in the Internet. And it will be very annoying if the banana republic starts using its considerable influence to get other countries to recognize its own crazy legislation and enact similar legislation of their own. But it’s time to accept that the banana republic’s government is broken and help its current residents escape from their abusive relationship.

Don’t write your representative, move your servers to Canada or shut up already.