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Comment by billpatrianakos

Those comments really got to me too. What really struck me was that they seemed to be angry at Jorform! These angry users are talking about security too as if they were attacked or something. I really feel for the users but at the same time I'm angry at them for placing the blame where it doesn't belong. Instead of being mad at Jotform they should be mad at the government.

A while back I was advocating that we reach out to such people and explain this SOPA censorship stuff in a way they understand and this is precisely why. SOPA's supporters have done a really great job of training regular folks to think like some of these angry users making them think that somehow it was Jotform that did wrong. If they only knew how totally arbitrary this stuff is I think they'd be mad at the Feds like they should be.

It's so sickening that the government probably just hurt not one but maybe thousands of companies in one fell swoop and everyone's pissed at the wrong guy. Then the politicians want to go around talking about creating jobs... Ha! How about destroying them? That's what it looks like to me.

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