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Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

If you're using a semi colon, you need to make sure it's a stand-alone sentence on both sides.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    You might be the only person in the country that knows how to use semi colons then. I thought it was just when you are already breaking apart a sentence in commas and want a list within one of those comma breaks.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago

    If you mean like when you’re creating a list of items that already contain commas, such as New York, NY; Boston, MA; and Sacramento, CA, then that is also a valid use of semicolons.

    My error was writing my sentence with a valid semicolon, then editing the sentence structure without replacing the semicolon with a comma before posting.

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