A great and inspiring example is the SOPA/PIPA thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act#Opposition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online

A great and inspiring example is the SOPA/PIPA thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act#Opposition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act#Opposit... Now, there are other less inspiring examples (e.g. SESTA/FOSTA)! and this didn't somehow form a durable political consensus (or an entrenched legal principle), but people looking at this issue in advance would have thought, and did think, that obviously this legislation would pass. And then it didn't.