We Were Totally Blacked Out Last Night But We're Okay Now (For Now)

It sounds outlandish, doesn’t it, that, forty-some years after we stopped seizing obscene books, the government would get back into the censorship game all over again — and in a big way. But it’s already happened: as you’ll surely remember with horror, the Department of Homeland Security seized some websites over claims of copyright infringement — and then held them in limbo for a year, stonewalling with the legal system. That went just so well: we’re sure that the U.S. government is oh-so-prepared to start seizing websites on a mass scale.

We really encourage you to make some noise today. Like much of the rest of the web, we’re totally vulnerable. (Hech, so are you and your Tumblr.) For more reading on SOPA/PIPA, here’s this great analysis and here’s a PDF of the group protest letter by law professors sent back in July.