Agreed. Look at the issue from somebody not versed in what has happened: because company X chose not to do business with somebody hackers love, hackers are shu

Agreed. Look at the issue from somebody not versed in what has happened: because company X chose not to do business with somebody hackers love, hackers are shutting down company X on the internet. That doesn't sound much like a sit-in. A sit-in doesn't involve botnets and thousands of people randomly dispersed around the globe. Be nice if it were more like a sit-in, though. But there's just no room between "doing nothing" and "disrupting my business and my cash flow" -- at least none we seem to have found by now. The author makes a great point that while there is all this nuance and distinction among people inside the story, for the vast majority of the apathetic this story, like all other ones, is going to be drawn like a comic-book, with good guys and bad guys. Time to wake up and figure out which box you're getting stuck into.