Hacker News Reader

Yes, as a long term strategy, that's definitely needed. And I also think we should write something like the Bill of Rights for the Internet.

But, for now, with so little time left, I think it's much more important to send the message that any politician who supports SOPA can kiss goodbye to their political career. The same goes for companies supporting it - massive short term and long term boycotts.

View on HN

I don't see how this strategy could work. The reality is most people don't care about SOPA or even understand the consequences of it. No politician is going to get thrown out because of it (especially not with Media Companies money behind them allowing them to run ads on Abortion, Gay Marriage, and a bunch of other hedge issues that large portions of people actually do care about)

I mean, lets be honest here. The media companies can pump way more money into the system then SOPA opposers can take out with a boycott. If that weren't the case this battle would have been won long ago.

The only way you win this fight is by getting enough normal people to care about SOPA and that isn't accomplished through boycotts. It's accomplished by talking to people outside the insular tech community.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com