SOPA and PIPA: What Do These Words Mean?
I’ve said the words SOPA and PIPA in my head so many times over the past 24 hours they’re starting to sound like a vaudeville act: “I need SOPA and PIPA like a hole the head! Ba-da-da-dah” – Sing it with me!
But in all seriousness, SOPA and PIPA are two very badly-written pieces of legislation that, were they to become law, would mean the Internet as we know it would change forever – and not in a good way.
Many websites are protesting today by going dark, including Wikipedia and Reddit - and my other website, MomsLA, where we’re also running this amazing post by Jessica Gottlieb about the whole hullabaloo. I urge you to read it.
And then please take action. Email or call your Congressperson and Senators. Or both. The Internet is too cool to let it slip through our fingers like this.