It's whistling in the dark. The people who know about SOPA, or should know about SOPA, don't frequent HN. They use Google and Facebook. The people who are in

It's whistling in the dark. The people who know about SOPA, or should know about SOPA, don't frequent HN. They use Google and Facebook. The people who are in charge of legislating SOPA, or voting on it, are similarly not effected. I think Wikipedia should black out each legislator's page with a big "SOPA WILL CENSOR THE INTERNET" notice. That will get the attention of the 6 o'clock news more than some evil hacker news site doing a "protest". After all, what senator's ego could bear having their Wikipedia page defaced?