Even though it could mean the end of what we now call the internet I have to agree that having the front page covered with SOPA blackout pages is silly.
People on HN are already aware of the risks this legislation brings.
It's more important we make people who use the internet regularly but don't know much about the legislation aware of what's going on and what the problems are with it.
These top news stories are likely news to only about 0.1% of HN.
If the correlation between SOPA awareness and HN user is indeed 99.9%, we need to find a website that has close to 0%. cough MySpace cough Could this bring web attention back to the decaying social network? Stay tuned.
I guess I really should stress my sarcasm more lol