So a great thing has happened, SOPA has been stopped dead in it’s tracks for the time being due to unprecedented amount of on-line protests (way to go team!)  In any case, you’ve undoubtedly heard a lot about SOPA in the past few weeks / months, the bill that was passing through legislation which completely undermined the architecture of the internet, or as I call it “the last tool of the people”.  Read more about SOPA and it’s hated pioneer Lamar Smith in these articles:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2012/01/sopa-bill-sent-back-to-the-drawing-board-in-wake-of-internet-protests.html

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/new-media/item/25434-lamar-smith-decides-to/ 

I’m glad people actually took a stand and spoke out, we as an internet community refuse to be steam rolled by congress and have our rights violated.  We must speak out, before it’s too late… First they came…

 ”First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak out because I was Protestant.

Then they came for me
 and there was no one left to speak out for me.”

 Credited to “first they came…” on wikipedia, link here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came…

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