Who Really Stopped SOPA

The Insta-Prof has a link.  Here's a great quotation:

The bitroots movement wasn’t led by Google. It wasn’t led by anyone. Even to look for its leaders is to miss the point. Internet users didn’t lobby or buy their way into influence. They used the tools at their disposal—Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter and the rest—to make their voices heard. They encouraged voluntary boycotts and blackouts, and organized awareness days. This was a revolt of, by and with social networks, turning the tools that organized them into groups in the first place into potent new weapons for political advocacy. The users had figured out how to hack politics.

INDEED.  We are Internet; hear us roar.  Besides, the grand point is that millions of ordinary people -- not professional lobbyists, corporate shills, or political players -- gave the wretched political establishment a good piece of our mind ... and it blinked.   The peasants revolted, much to Congress's surprise (and, I suppose, dismay).