FormStorm

Fair enough but targeting elected officials, whose job it is to cast votes on all manner of controversial issues, not just this one, is a ridiculous expenditure of resources. Pointing the gun in the wrong direction here, let's focus on the companies who supported SOPA and let them feel the sting. It just feels like Reddit is drunk on their own power and have stopped thinking about what the point of all this was. Perhaps the point wasn't to diminish our system of representation in this way.

Excuses. It doesn't address the misguided idea of targeting representatives rather than the companies that deserve to be targeted.

If they want they can target TWO companies and focus their resources. My suspicion is, however, that Reddit and the internet as a whole does not have enough of a collective reach into the pockets of Comcast and other media giants, so they're focusing on some representative who probably makes half of what a programmer does in a year. It's poor. It's misguided.

When you don't like how a representative votes on issues, then you show it by not voting for that representative the next election. The proposal is for retaliatory action, akin to: "let's shoot his dog because he voted a way I don't like." The idea that anyone would try to ruin someone's life and career over his vote on one issue is a terrifying prospect and it doesn't belong in an open society. That kind of behavior degrades us all.

If you want to have impact, then boycott the other 149 companies who were on that list in addition to Godaddy. Why is no one doing that?

Someone explain this logic to me - I'm not seeing it. There were 150 companies on the list of SOPA supporters. The internet went after exactly one of them, Godaddy. I'm as happy as anyone to see Godaddy sweat, but who is going after the other 149? Are we saying the mighty mighty power of social media is that limited? Yes, that's exactly what we're saying.

Like SomeCallMeTim, I have reservations about targeting representatives in this way. I'm surprised no one on any forum is talking about targeting the other 149 companies who deserve some backlash. We're saying they can do what they like with impunity. Who is talking about this? Why are we not talking about this instead?

Great, but what about the other 149 companies on the list of SOPA supporters? Who's going after them?

Though I'm happy that Godaddy was made to buckle by the collective force of the internet, I can't help but ask: what about the other 149 companies on the SOPA list? Has no one thought about this? The only reason the internet went after Godaddy is because it is one of the few companies within the internet's reach. None of the major media player on the list have suffered or will suffer. Why? Because the internet is an utopia and the world out there is way way bigger than the internet can reach. So much for that fantasy, everybody.