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Exactly. Basically everyone else in my entire family has no clue about SOPA, or if they've heard of it, what it really could mean for sites they visit every day.

If web giants -- those that are used most by those unaware or uneducated about SOPA -- were to post a page about SOPA in place of their services, people would have no choice but to take notice and learn what "this SOPA" is all about.

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Shouldn't it also be your Job to inform your relatives? Just sayin'

Maybe, but there's a big difference in hearing the "geek in the family" talking about yet another tech subject without really hearing about it anywhere else, vs. visiting a web site only to find it taken down and replaced with a message about SOPA.

My (and many people's) individual words will not have near the impact that seeing giant organizations cooperatively taking action -- by giving up a day's worth of business -- in opposition to something.

That's not to say that we shouldn't try to educate others. But something like this will go so much further -- it will hit deeper and broader.

Very likely that they already explained to their relatives after bringing it up.

I even heard that people in IT have said that other people they work with have no idea about the ramifications of SOPA and many other anti-Internet bills.