User blog comment:H-Man Havoc/Semi-Protected Pages/@comment-743796-20110328144324/@comment-217683-20110329011402

I don't see the argument as having gained any strength. How would protection have helped here? The only people who can protect pages are people who can also block vandals. And there were no pressing reasons to protect these pages over the last few days. Literally the only way protection would have helped here is if we had arbitrarily and permanently protected all major pages some time ago. Is that really what you want, in light of your earlier protestations that you aren't advocating going Mainland China here?