User blog comment:SubAqua/Freedom is the right of all Sentient internet Users!!!/@comment-3134619-20120117040915/@comment-1393830-20120117195509

Let me just say that these "protests" are a pretty moot point. I say this as a person who works in politics. To preface this, I will say that I am a political science major and the treasurer of a political group on campus and if all goes well, I will have a job working for the State party for the rest of the election season. Politics is what I do and study every day. I have looked at SOPA and PIPA support very closely. There is not enough to pass. I have met with several of the congressmen in the areas surrounding me and have talked with a senator. There is not support for these bills. Even in the extreme case that SOPA or PIPA pass, Obama has said he will veto them. Returning to congress then, there is no possible way that they could overturn a presidential veto. They would not come close to getting the necessary votes. So with these protests tomorrow, they are doing nothing more than protesting bills that have no chance to pass. I have to imagine that Jimmy Wales and the others involved in planning this blackout are aware that these bills will not pass and that by blacking out these sites, they really are not doing much. Knowing congress the way I do, I can say that these protests really aren't going to change their minds on anything. One of the congressmen that I have met with barely knows how to turn a computer on. If Wikipedia goes black, he is not going to notice. So in essence, I don't see the point of these protests.