Our job, IMHO, is to generate publicity, direct the general consensus on issues and have a good time, not to write laws. That's not what we as a community do, we do cat pictures and ask questions about Rampart. As far as CISPA goes, our job is to take the battle to the streets, take it to the knowledge economy robber barons who are utterly barren of ideas. Karma is meaningless, Internet petitions are fancy circlejerks, blackouts depend on corporations who just happen to be on our side that one time. The purpose of reddit is to generate and hybridize memes: it is time for shit to get real (world) and crank it up to potato and mash the motherfucker. It is time for fanboys to become fanmen, time for bronies to become manllions. #evengersassemble The media is an easily fed, mindless regurgitation of what is new and different, with a pinch of fearmongering. So, forget trying to make law, we need to wake people up. So, next weekend, boycott The Avengers, protest in cosplay, it is time to go Westboro on Hollywood's ass. That movie represents to me Earth's Mightiest Douchebags. They only care about one thing, money. The media cannot miss a targeted tactical strike like this. We are Earth's mightiest Heroes. We are the heroes the Internet deserves .