Look, I appreciate the sentiment, but a website compromise spree is only going to give the lawmakers more ammunition with which to create more legislation designed to oppress in the name of protecting us from the bad guys.
Speaking as a parent of two kids, temper tantrums never work.
As far as I can tell, they're not telling anyone to deface sites - they are saying that you should black out your sites, and encourage others to do the same.
Wikipedia was/is considering doing something similar.
I may have misread the statement. I read the statement, addressed in part to "Hacktivists", reading:
> Replace the front page of every website we can with a simple, clear protest page.
Given past operating procedure, that seems like a call to action to deface every site you can get access to. If it's not, then I rescind my original comment.
I think the point is to generate more of a self-sposored focus of passive resistance; they're not the people threatening to pull sites offline in response to an anonymous report of a copyright violation. In fact, they really don't have the power to pull sites offline; neither does the USDOJ, but in the balance of things, only the latter has the power to cause real financial damage.
Speaking as a parent of two kids, temper tantrums never work.