Web Giants Consider 'Nuclear Option' Blackout to Fight SOPA
I was disappointed when Time magazine named "the Protester" person of the year for 2011. A blackout of major web services would amount to little more than a stunt. Sure, the mainstream media will run the story for the first day...but for how long will these services remain willfully unavailable?  Who will cave in first and go back online without resolution?<p>It seems to me that the popularity of activism and protesting do little to affect change, whereas more commonly yes than no they simply represent an inconvenience to everyone else who can't be bothered with another struggle/burden in their lives.  There must be more mature and effective means of defeating SOPA than having a group of web services throwing a temper tantrum.