User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/The Day We Fight Back: A Digital Protest/@comment-10507735-20140211173103/@comment-10507735-20140211185715

TBAH I genuinely thought that I was NOT being disrespectful, merely pointing out that - while noble and well intentioned - a 'discussion group' will have all of the effect that a damp hanky would have in extinguishing a Firestorm of the Coventry variety.

We know what the problems are.

Yes, SOPA and PIPA were temporarily defeated recently but are now being refloated quite surreptitiously as subclauses of the highly secretive Trans Pacific Partnership.

Certainly the Internet and WWW are magnificent utilities and enablers. Slighly OT (and probably more important than shafting SOPA and PIPA) was the recent outing of the Saudis and Qataris in re Syria by various "fringe" areas of the blogospere. Arguably, this prevented highly erroneous Foreign Policy actions by the USSA.

I never for a moment led you to believe that I wouldn't support your protest, but I am mystified as to how you expect the NSA or Congress to be TALKED into backing off. Various parties have been using the Internet ever since the recent data mining assertions came to light to pressure TPTB into "cutting it out" -- and it has been met with evasion and obfuscation at best and otherwise ignored by the MSM.

The only way for you to escape this state behaviour is for them to be removed from their toys. An alternative is to encourage over-reach -- but that has perils of a differing order. A third might be defunding the offenders or removing corporate charters, good luck with that line of attack.

Explain to me what you hope to achieve (i.e. DE-mystify me)