People need to organize and protest, online and in person. That means, an organized blackout like SOPA/PIPA and organized public (in real life) protests. I like

People need to organize and protest, online and in person. That means, an organized blackout like SOPA/PIPA and organized public (in real life) protests. I like the whitehouse.gov petitions, but I don't know of an instance where they've helped anything (in their short history). The Baby Boomers got plenty done with protests. And Google/Wikipedia/etc stopped SOPA/PIPA with a massive online blackout. Of course, the tech industry largely benefits from intelligence spending, so I'm not sure how much of a protest could be organized online. Perhaps the users themselves need to boycott any company not opposed to surveillance (say, replacing their avatar with some indication of their boycott and deleting all their content). Also, I think we need the Republicans (or anyone) to impeach Obama, for the good of the country.