Also, call their office.  Great way to get responses.  Anyone can write an email.  Snail mail helps also since nobody does it anymore, its more likely to get attention.  Print it on a nice letterhead so it looks official. 

No easier way to get a politician to read a letter than to make it look like you have money to donate and a large influence on his vote. 

I’ve done all this before (been too busy lately to do it for this), and I’ve gotten phone calls and had conversations.  Doesn’t work every time, I’d say about a 50% success rate. 

You;re proving the point of having regular sites at least spread the word about SOPA. Most people are ignorant, but not stupid. Even if it only hits a few people out of everyone who visits, it’s still something. I don’t advocate for Droid Life having a blackout (since, unlike Wikipedia, they’re for profit), but they really ought to have a huge banner or some other such thing to make people aware.

On that note, I can’t back it up with anything more than anecdotal, but neither can you. 

Go ask a few people you know who that aren’t tech-people what they think about SOPA and what it means to them.  I’d bet you they’ll know nothing or very little about it… maybe just that Wikipedia is going down… but not any low-level details.

I’m assuming you’ve also written your representatives in Washington already, and called them to voice your opinion… as well as your local government officials.

I’d wager no. Once the general population does their part, then the websites can do theirs. 

What I’m saying is that it’s not enough of an impact, and in fact hurts them because people will look other places for their information, and possibly find them even more useful.

People won’t realize the significance of Wikipedia going down… Certain parts of Google, Twitter, FaceBook, Yahoo, Bing, certain parts of Microsoft, Wikiepedia, and many others.  If coordinated in unison and included a high level explaination as to WHY they were going down would have a much larger impact. 

Wikipedia going down will just piss people off.  Also, from the initial buzz I am hearing, most people don’t even know WHY they’re going down.  It’s also announced, so people just won’t go to the site, missing any useful message they have up. 

Also, guess what….. nobody even blurbed about reddit going down.

What issues?

But I am very happy you enjoy your Razr. (since you have to since it’s locked down and likely to be the only brand to never see another unlocked bootloader again)