Stop SOPA/PIPA

What is SOPA/PIPA? How could it be abused? I spent quite a bit of time over the last 24 hours trying to figure out exactly what I should do with WHYGAVS in protest of SOPA/PIPA, the two censorship laws being debated in Congress that threaten to fundamentally change the internet as we know it. I thought about shutting down the blog for the day and putting up a blackout page, but because this site is something much more personal to me, I'd rather leave the site up and make a personal appeal.This is something that really, truly matters to me. A free and open internet has changed the way that we live life in the 21st century; it's changed the way we interact with the world around us, it's changed the way knowledge is passed, it's changed the way we share our lives with our family and friends. Think of how the internet has changed life for the better over the last five or ten years and consider what it might make possible in the future. Piracy and intellectual property t...