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In focus

Skirmishes in the 'great sectarian war of the Internet'

New York Times op-ed columnist Bill Keller, who entered the fray this week with a call for the entrenched supporters and adversaries of controversial anti-piracy legislation to find common ground

A trio of editorials appeared in American national newspapers this week, reigniting the war of words over the protests against SOPA and PIPA earlier this year which saw an unprecedented blackout of Wikipedia and other websites inspire the defeat of the proposed anti-piracy legislation.