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Originally Posted by wizwor
I'd rather see people force the proponents to withdraw the legislature.
I think a more effective protest would be for all consumers of media to stop purchasing media until SOPA is killed. Their product is discretionary. People can live without movies, CDs, and books for a couple months -- the industries cannot.
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That requires everyone to know about the issue and at the moment main stream media isn't really covering it.
A blackout of Google, Amazon, Facebook, Paypal and eBay for even one day with a suitable replacement page saying why would instantly get word out to just about every single person who uses the internet and a good dose of those who don't as it'd be headline news too.
Whether the aforementioned companies would be willing to take the complaints such a day offline would bring though, I have my doubts, but if they all follow through with it they'd certainly be putting their money where their mouth is and have my respect for such a real protest.
Edit: Assuming blackout refers to actually closing the service and not just changing the page background to black as has happened in the past.