Lets start riots

SOPA, enough said.

Our Government is dead, real dead. They are ignorant

What?

SOPA and Protect IP.

Video with some details on it, and just how messed up it is.

....SOPA is gonna screw this up? No more RPing?

Only if those bills pass. There has been protests against it among many famous sites, such as Wikipedia, Google, Nostalgia Critic, deviantart, and others.

People have been made aware what the government is trying to do, and they are not pleased one bit.

They've been trying to get these bills in for awhile now, just under many different names, and each one has failed. I wouldn't stress out too much about it. But if you do have the time to sign a petition or send a letter to your Congressmen, might as well do it. Because the more that goes against it, the better.

So, specifically what does it do? I can't turn up my volume at the moment.

Well SOPA is an acronym for "Stop Online Piracy Act". As the name implies, it's a security system to prevent illegal sites where piracy takes place.

Protect IP is more or less the same thing, just "not as bad", it's a common tactic, SOPA gets the attention, they try to fly Protect IP under the radar, which hasn't been very successful either.

Now, it is supposed to stop illegal activities, but in reality, it's probably going to do something completely different.

It gives the entertainment industries full rights to sue sites that have copyright infringing material on them, such as music videos, movie clips, even gameplay videos. Sites like Youtube, Twitter, Facebook and more would be in threat of it. What's worse is that they are given no chance to remove the infringing material that their users may have posted.

Even links to such material is grounds for blocking a site via DNS, suing to have them removed from search engines. Not only that, but it also gives the companies the power to sue new sites into submission, their competition would be eliminated just on the grounds that they might have infringing material.

It's real, and it's scary. But many people are acting against it. I have doubts that it will actually pass.

Well good. I don't want to get freaking sued for just mentioning the stuff I like.

They've been trying to pass these [under different names, of course] for about ten years now. People oppose it every single time.

There's even members in Congress that oppose it because it would make the Internet unstable, security would take a significant drop because now there would be links to scam sites, feigning as a popular site that may have been blocked, etc.

Not to mention the amount of innocent people getting sued over these big wigs getting whiney about their stuff.