[artursapek]

Honestly, I think these organic responses are valuable and eye-opening. They are coming from "common people" who don't heavily involve themselves in internet issues/browse reddit and therefore hadn't heard of any of this. I am so used to reading about SOPA on HN that I sort of forgot that most people who use the internet don't visit these corners.

I understand the point of that twitter account is to be funny (and it is) but I do think it holds value as proof of:

A) The public unawareness of this legislation

B) The potential public outrage were it to pass

[reidmain]

I truly hope these aren't common people.

Based on those tweets it appears that the vast majority of them are still unaware of the legislation and the outrage has been directed everywhere but at SOPA/PIPA. Hell some of the most tweeted responses are about how Obama is ruining America and now he's taken down Wikipedia to boot.

Hopefully this is just a microcosm of the people who have been affected by the Wikipedia outage and most of them have made an attempt to contact their representative or at least talk about SOPA in a more intelligent manor with someone around them.

[artursapek]

Hahahah I share your hope, but I don't believe it to be true. Then again, maybe what we're seeing there is just a "best of" all the reactions.