Why We Won't See Many Protests like the SOPA Blackout

Over at TIME.com, I consult public choice theory to glean the meaning of last week's SOPA protest success:

The SOPA blackout protest last week was an unprecedented event. Its massive success — with dozens of members of Congress switching their stance in one day under the withering intensity of thousands of phone calls — surprised even the activists who spurred the protest. So does this mean that we are entering the much-heralded era of Internet-powered citizen democracy?

Read the whole thing here.