In response to: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/o23vy/google_amazon_facebook_and_twitter_consider/ Thread content link: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/111543-google-amazon-facebook-and-twitter-considering-nuclear-option-to-protest-sopa
If you don't want SOPA to pass, it's quite simple. You simply don't let it affect you. If it doesn't make sense, there's no reason to abide by it. Because if there is a reason for everything you do, you will be the most innocent man in the world. After all, that's what courts are supposed to figure out: get reasons when we don't know all the details.
The only problem we can solve is the one in front of us, and until SOPA directly stops me from living my life, it doesn't matter whether it's passed or not. And when it directly stops me from living my life, I will be able to directly fix it, because I'll understand exactly what to do. Otherwise, it's pointless to worry. However, it's always useful to have backup plans. Just keep thinking of more and more backup plans, until eventually you find a complete way around SOPA altogether.
You don't have to change the court system and the government to better your life. Those systems don't make sense. And telling them they don't make sense isn't going to help, either, because they're already idiots, they don't know the solution. You need to explain the solution to them, in terms they can understand. When they know every reason why you believe what you believe, they will have no choice to see your way.
But in order to do that, you need to find an answer to every question every person ever asks you. That's pretty simple, though. All you have to do is Google the question every time someone asks you one. Google it and read.
It'd be pretty hard to do that if you shut off Google. You don't solve any problems by stemming the flow of information. You just slow down the process of getting the right information to the right people. If things like that keep happening, our society will collapse even more, and we'll rely on the government again. Google is the alternative to the government's idiocy. If you turn off Google, the government becomes the only option again.