SOPA?

Quick rundown on what's happening on the interweb as we know it right now (c/o mozilla)

What's happening?
Congress is trying to pass legislation that threatens free speech and innovation on the Internet, under the banner of anti-piracy efforts.

Risk
The proposed infrastructure would damage the security of the Internet and allow the government extensive censorship abilities.

What does this mean?
Your favorite websites, both inside and outside the US, could be blocked based on a single infringement claim, without any due process of law. (keyword...just a claim. This means that thousands of pages can be blocked or removed if the infringement claim is based on only one page.)

How will they do this?
The US will be able to block a site’s web traffic, ad traffic and search traffic using the same website censorship methods used by China, Iran and Syria.

Basically, Twitter, Tumblr, Youtube, Wikipedia, Google, Yahoo, Mozilla and many more major sites can be affected by this.

How do we stop this?
https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/
please take action...

-C