Tell Congress: Don’t censor the Web 

What is SOPA?
http://gizmodo.com/5877000/what-is-sopa

You can help by contacting your representative in Congress directly. Enter your zip code and state on this page to get the contact information you need - http://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

I made a minor edit to your post, tiny

This is the largest online protest in history
Timeline - http://sopastrike.com/timeline

List of participating sites - http://sopastrike.com/

BTW, mobile wikipedia is up - http://en.m.wikipedia.org/

Google has published a very interesting infographic:



Here is the fine print behind those numbers (as explained by Consumerist.com):

1 — Vint Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the Internet, opposed SOPA in an open letter to Congress.

5 — Internet security experts (Steve Crocker, David Dagon, Dan Kaminsky, Danny McPherson, Paul Vixie) issued a white paper raising serious concerns about the technical approach of PIPA.

9 — Internet and technology companies (including AOL, eBay, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Firefox, LinkedIn, Zynga) sent an open letter opposing the bills and the risks posed to innovation and job creation.

17 — Internet company founders (including Arianna Huffington, Craig Newmark, Jimmy Wales and Sergey Brin) sent an open letter opposing SOPA and PIPA.

39 — Advocacy and public interest organizations (including the ACLU, MoveOn and Consumers Union) voiced their opposition.

41 — Human organizations, including the Center for Media Justice and Reporters Without Borders, sent a letter to express concern for the bills' civil and human rights implications.

55 — Leading venture capitalists issued a letter expressing concerns that PIPA "would stifle investment in Internet services, throttle innovation and hurt American competitiveness."

110 — Law professors sent a letter expressing "serious constitutional, innovation, and foreign policy concerns."

204 — Entrepreneurs sent a letter expressing concern that PIPA and SOPA would "hurt economic growth and chill innovation."

113,000+ — People have petitioned the White House to oppose SOPA and PIPA. The White House issued a commitment to "not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative, global Internet."

887,000+ — members of the American public called Congress to voice their opposition through AmericanCensorship.org.

3,000,000+ — Americans voice their opposition by signing petitions.

Sources:
https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/
http://consumerist.com/2012/01.....mbers.html

SOPA and PIPA explained (11-minute video)

Congress has shelved the anti-piracy bills and postponed voting on them as a result of online protests - http://www.usatoday.com/money/.....52698192/1

Excellent commentary here - http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....story.html

As my colleague Nilay Patel said when comparing online piracy to DVD piracy in New York City: It’s “the effective equivalent of blowing up every road, bridge and tunnel in New York to keep people from getting to one bootleg [DVD] stand in Union Square — but leaving the stand itself alone.”

Now to my point. The SOPA and PIPA bills are being driven through our government by lobbyists who have been given a mandate to protect private companies and their profits by any means necessary. As a part of a private company that makes its money through content creation and delivery, I understand the sentiment — I just disagree with the solution.

SOPA and PIPA are like taking a sledgehammer to something when you need a scalpel. The laws are too far-reaching and too simplistic to accurately police real piracy online, and they have been created by people who either don’t fully understand the Internet or can’t appreciate its value.