Ireland on the verge of getting SOPA without getting a chance to talk to their legislators!

[thewayne]

It's being made in to law via a Statutory Instrument, thus avoiding those clumsy elected representatives.

On top of this, the wording is tremendously vague, so it is expected that the powers proposing it will stretch it beyond all recognition.

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/01/irelands-sopa/

Comments

[silveradept]

That's a nice trick. I didn't think democracies usually had things in place that allowed for a governmental entity to just pass a law like that.