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Tomorrow, Jan. 18th, there will be a blackout in protest of SOPA and PIPA.

Reddit, Wikipedia, Imgur, The Cheezeburger Network, Boing Boing, and a ton of other sites will be blacking out in protest of these bills (and the ones that are being cooked up to replace them).

Google will even be putting up a protest notification on their front page.

Chances are, you haven’t, and won’t, hear much about this.  Just as you won’t hear much about Occupy Congress which is going on right now.

We live in precarious times.  Obama (or Dick Cheney’s bookmark, as he will one day be known)  just handed indefinite detention of Americans to whoever takes the helm once his term limit is up.  Congress is aggressively trying to censor the internet and call it Piracy Prevention.  And Israel (with the help of some of our most loathesome congresscritters) is doing it’s best to pimp slap us into invading Iran for them.

The average citizen doesn’t know about these things, much less give a damn about them.  Below average citizens are doing their best to shut up or discredit anyone that calls attention to these things.

Anyway, don’t try to use Wikipedia tomorrow, because it won’t be there.  Just as many of it’s pages won’t be there in the future if these internet censorship bills (or any of their successors) get shoved through.  Isn’t it nice to know that Washington is wasting it’s time on things like this as opposed to creating jobs or fixing our country?  I absolutely love how the only time we ever see any bipartisan bills come out of congress, they always seem to revolve around dissolving our liberty or our freedoms.

For a detailed analysis of SOPA and why it sucks, check this out.