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> For maximum impact: Google should disable all of its public facing web servers for a week.

That would be making a point that would be lost on a lot of people.

Their first and last thought would be: "What the hell is going on? I'm losing orders here and my packers are standing around drinking coffee."

You can tell people what you want them to think about, but you can't force them to think.

Google profits hundreds of dollars a second, shutting down their search engine for a week would make their stock holders extremely unhappy.

Exactly - impacting the bottom line is an excellent way to get peoples attention.

So you think Google should fuck over millions of people to protest Congress potentially fucking over millions of people??

I think a good start would be filtering out access to all government IPs.

Yea, I think a doodle is a better idea.

s/protest/attempt to prevent/