It doesn't surprise me that major internet brokers weren't involved; Google, Yahoo, and others are alleged to have had established relationships with the intell

It doesn't surprise me that major internet brokers weren't involved; Google, Yahoo, and others are alleged to have had established relationships with the intelligence community – relationships that likely profited them. So, those firms shouldn't be relied upon to take a stand. To make a company an effective advocate for any change, you need to threaten their revenue stream. That's really the only factor a corporation can be relied upon to respond to, and it was a motivating factor behind much of the corporate defiance to SOPA. SOPA included provisions that would have barred advertising and imposed costly bureaucracy, and it was thus valuable to protest it. By comparison, any current relationships between such companies and government agencies, regarding their data, only makes them a party to pissing on the constitution and assisting in assassinations through the provision of metadata. That doesn't cost a thing.