Downtime by Law: “These are actual, established rights being disposed of – the fundamental legal underpinnings of the Internet – and in any sane world a series of decisions like this would create a backlash severe enough to snap your neck. Though freedom of speech has always been the abstract red-headed stepchild of the Constitution, almost any largish group subjected to treatment like the recent decisions would respond as it needs to respond: with an effective and organized lobbying effort to defend not only its present but its future rights. The population of the Internet, in contrast, has managed to whine a lot. Or rather, those who are even aware of the problem have managed to whine a lot.”