On Implementing Effective Internet Protests?

andr0meda asks: "The ecology activist group Friends of the Earth is protesting against the recent dimissal of the Kyoto Protocol by President Bush, on the grounds of protecting the current economic momentum. It is a valid reason on it's own, but given that the US is the strongest economy in the world, this is a little out of place. My question is wheather these kind of internet protests can have effect on any policy. In Inet-land, there are no stable, validated channels that are really used to examine the public opinion. You can`t strike or protest-march on the internet. There is no e-government. You can only ruin (or hope to ruin) someone's mail system or network in order to stand out from the crowd. So my issue is twofold: 1) what can you do to effectively protest on the internet without harming anyone or anything? 2) Does free-speech and subsequent opinion-chaos mean you have to break the system to augment the potential importance of your discourse? Then again, maybe I should be worried more about the Slashdot Effect on the website. (In the meantime, you are of course welcome to join in on the protest)" While the internet is great for organizing such things, I think protests are best felt in meatspace, where such actions have more weight.