The millions of Americans who stood up against the Stop Online Privacy Act and the Senate's related anti-piracy bill should also be asking tough questions about the government's expanding surveillance powers.
The online realm is replete with a vast cornucopia of information. So asking the masses something that you could have easily looked up yourself is just plain lazy, especially when said query makes you look like a full-on idiot.
For Heather Neroy, it used to be a tedious process: Whenever she came across an interesting arts-and-crafts project or recipe on the Internet, she would save it for later by copying the link, pasting it into an e-mail and sending it to herself.