Internet blackout day

Maybe a gesture like this will finally get people's attention although I rather doubt it.

One major tactic that might truly derail the bill would be if the biggest websites in the country were to temporarily shut down their services and instead inform visitors of the dangers of SOPA. Remarkably, it now appears as though a coalition made up of fifteen online titans is seriously considering doing exactly that.

And hey good luck with that. But these major internet companies along with free speech advocates of all stripes have been talking about the dangers of SOPA for months and months now and have gotten little to no traction. This tells me the time has finally arrived for the internet to do what was always going to do and become more of a one way medium for mega-media conglomerates to blast content at consumers just the way they do with radio and television.

Source: Frugal dad

Even if SOPA goes down... which is looking unlikely right now... something like it is pretty much inevitable. The infrastructure is just now coming online that will finally make the internet more like the entertainment delivery systems that preceded it. Smart phones and tablets are making computers more like TVs and legislation like this will make the internet more and more like a cable subscription where distribution and prioritization of content is controlled by a very few companies and everything else is shunted off to the side or shut down completely.

The fact that this very real and imminent threat to a form of free and open speech we've come to take for granted has generated little more than a yawn from the public tells me all I need to know about the prospects for stopping it.