On the other hand, why is such a drastic measure called for?
Evan Rytlewski, writer for The A.V. Club, wrote that "Even by the standards of an artist who reinvents himself with each release, it's a drastic departure," calling it West's "loudest and most impulsive album".
Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, said: "Blocking The Pirate Bay is pointless and dangerous.It will fuel calls for further, wider and even more drastic calls for Internet censorship of many kinds, from pornography to extremism.
"It will fuel calls for further, wider and even more drastic calls for internet censorship of many kinds, from pornography to extremism," he said.
"It could mean a drastic reduction in calls to us," said Mr. Sheridan.
This is Assad's own position, it bears pointing out, and a drastic shift from calling for regime change.
Such a drastic transition is called a Hopf bifurcation.
He still advocates what he calls a drastic solution, but he still insists that it has never included murder.
In patients who undergo a drastic weight reduction procedure called gastric bypass surgery, that figure rises to more than 50percentt.
The Bloomberg administration is drafting a drastic backup budget plan calling for another billion dollars in cuts and as many as 15,000 layoffs in case the city does not win the help it wants from Albany and the unions, city officials said yesterday.
