January 18th, 2012, will be the largest internet protest in history. Thousands of sites across the internet, including some of the biggest in the world, will be blacking out and directing people to contact Congress to kill the web censorship bill, SOPA and PIPA. We want to get you involved.
In just 7 days, the Senate will vote on forever altering the free and open internet by instituting a new regime of extra-judicial, corporate-led website takedowns. This is a fundamental fight about who has power in society — the people with the means to communicate freely or the governments and corporations that feel threatened.
The clock is ticking, and we’re still 35 senators short of the number we need to kill the bill.
If you’re on Facebook or Twitter, please use these links to spread the word about the protest:
Read more at http://sopacountdown.com/
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