Former Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle offered her take on the debate over controversial online piracy legislation. Here’s a portion of what she said in a statement released by her campaign for U.S. Senate: 

“As Senator, I would work to develop public-private cooperative efforts that address piracy and copyright infringement without the potential of government censorship that the current legislative proposals would permit.”

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