"Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness.” This is Charles Bukowski, the American poet, novelist and short story writer, in 1985. Alas, what’s at stake with the Stop Online Piracy Act is far greater and graver than sadness; it’s the ruthless uprooting of the basic principles that make the Internet a thriving ecosystem of creativity and intellect, doing nothing to foil the kind of digital parasitism that actually does cultural harm and everything to stymie the alchemy of creativity."