For those of you who don't know about SOPA and PIPA

These are two bills in Congress that put simply: are bad news.  The goal of the bills is to end Piracy but the end result will likely be a mass censorship and removal of the shared content of the internet.




Let me put that simply:


half the funny pictures on my blog wouldn't be allowed.


That's bad news.


You like my blog?  You want to keep reading it? Go sign a petition.  There's one you can find if you just click on the Google Doodle for today, which you can't see because it is blacked out.


A lot of websites are blacking out their sites in protest.  Wikipedia is among them, so I guess it's a really good thing that the majority of us don't have papers due yet.


Here's a link for more information:


Explanation of SOPA/PIPA



And here's my obligatory funny picture:

I'm probably doing something really
embarrassing in this photo, but you can't see.
GET THE PICTURE?