“This is altogether a new effect,” Mr. Dodd said, comparing the online movement to the Arab Spring. He could not remember seeing “an effort that was moving with this degree of support change this dramatically” in the last four decades, he added....

The companies, Mr. Dodd said, are “rethinking everything,” not just about the bills, but about their relationship with an estranged Silicon Valley.

That need for rapprochement, he said, “has come home in a way that no rhetoric of mine could express.”

Anyone who would sacrifice freedoms their forefathers died to defend for a little corporate profit is a fucking idiot.