What a difference a blackout day makes!
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[If you thought all those petitions and site blackouts were just a lot of silly, ineffective noise, you might want to reconsider.]Click the infographic to see how support for #SOPA and #PIPA dramatically changed in the last 24 hours. For details, including how to contact any of the remaining 63 supporters by phone, email, or even their Facebook or Twitter page, and how much each of them received from the related industries during their most recent campaigns, go to http://projects.propublica.org/sopa.
#stopsopa #stoppipa #stopsopapipa #sopablackout #sopa #pipa #pipablackout
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I tend to think people contacting their Senators did it, not the blackouts. Do you really think Senators would cave because some sites "went dark?" I mean, maybe….maybe….but tons of emails, faxes and calls…..that's the ticket to stop bad legislation if it can be stopped. The black outs is PR – the contact with the Senators offices is the Action. IMHO.
Absolutely! Contacting our representatives is precisely what did it! But all of the blacked-out sites had redirects to contact info of those Representatives and that's what lit up the phones and email of our senators!
Without the blackout, there was little awareness. It worked, plain and simple!