It sounds like SOPA could also force the shutdown of otherwise legitimate websites (ie forums) where the site owner cannot guarantee that there are provisions in place to prevent people linking to copyrighted material.
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If the Attorney General served reddit with an order to remove links to a domain, we would be required to scrub every post and comment on the site containing the domain and censor the links out, even if the specific link contained no infringing content. We would also need to implement a system to automatically censor the domain from any future posts or comments. This places a measurable burden upon the site's technical infrastructure. It also damages one of the most important tenets of reddit, and the internet as a whole – free and open discussion about whatever the #### you want.
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