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It would be nice. I was looking for most effect for the least amount of effort, but yes, fixing the system would be great.

This. All this effort into stopping single pieces of legislation could be better directed into fixing the political system. Everyone knows that senators can be bought, but we still play the game and protest the legislation instead of the process causing the legislation.

Why don't http://rootstrikers.org/ and Laurence Lessig get brought up in these discussions more?

Ultimately fixing the system is the way to go. I don't think the OP's boycotts would do ANYTHING to address that issue. As a short-term fix having tech giants throw money at politicians would probably be effective. However then the tech industry is one of the vested interests in NOT fixing the system because they're a big player in it... Kind of a catch-22