I think we all need to step up to this ridiculous legislation (that's likely to get passed, $_ help us), however: - If everyone on a site is aware of SOPA (and

I think we all need to step up to this ridiculous legislation (that's likely to get passed, $_ help us), however: - If everyone on a site is aware of SOPA (and who isn't?), disappearing completely for the day doesn't help anything, really. And actually can be a bad thing; while I was able to watch the first hearing on CSPAN, I wasn't able to watch the other--the play-by-play on HN was really, really helpful. - If no one who uses the site is aware of SOPA, going away will raise awareness and will be AWESOME. - If your site is mission-critical, disappearing completely for the day is serious badness and could open you up to all sorts of mayhem. By that logic, however, and I believe my logic is pretty sound, Google Search should display a doodle that jumps straight to opensecrets.org and Facebook should put up a big banner every third refresh telling everyone to wake the eff up. 0:)