From Information Diet | Ending stuff like SOPA:
Let’s get real. It’s time for “The Internet” — and by that I mean the digital elites who really involve themselves in its design and architecture, to understand that progress isn’t going to be engineered. SOPA is not an engineering problem or a marketing problem. It’s a Washington problem. The engineers here are lawyers and organizers, not software developers. More often than not, the best ideas end up thrown into the potomac to make way for the ideas that had the most money behind them. SOPA is no exception. For most battles, who has the most support doesn’t matter. It’s who has the best lobbyists.</blockquote>