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But I don't think the effect on casual users will be exclusively what the blackout-proponents are hoping. Interestingly, you are right. At the moment emails to

• gojomo 15y ago
  It could get much worse! I think there's been some groupthink in a bubble over this rush-to-blackout, a "we must do something, this is something, we must do this" spiral. I wouldn't expect too much pro-SOPA backlash – though there's sure to be a little when the entire site is gone, because some people are genuinely intellectual-property and law-enforcement maximalists. Most people simply aren't political and resent efforts by other people to make them so, especially efforts like blocking roads, chanting in bullhorns, closing libraries/schools, and so forth. (Blacking out a service with a lobbying message falls into that category of intentional disruption to prove a point.) No jumping off the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man!