Save the Comb! Oh, and the Rest of the Internet Too.

A quick blahg, in honor of the online protests today against SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (the Protect IP Act), two current bills in Congress that will censor what we, the people, can and cannot access on the internet.

Yes, you read that correctly… Anything that a copyright holder deems to be a violation of their copyrighted material can lead to a complete eradication of the website in question without warning or proceeding trial.  It will just disappear.

Yikes.

There is no doubt, people... If passed, this Congress will effectively end the freedom of information on the internet as we know it and we cannot let that happen.

The bills are widely supported by the movie and music industries (which is not too surprising), while they are vehemently opposed by many of the major online sources of information.  The very frightening reality of the issue, as many individuals and corporations, including President Obama, recognize, is that the negative consequences of these bills will reach much further than to those who are intentionally pirating copyrighted materials for financial gain.

Get this… THIS blahg, A Fein Toothed Comb, could be erased from the internet completely because of my proclivity for linking to articles outside of my own page for the sake of enhancing my readers’ knowledge on a particular topic (as I have done all throughout this post).  Unacceptable.

Everyone: SIGN SOMETHING against this horrific attempt to block our freedom of speech! Protect our right to information on the internet! Support the online protests being led by internet giants like Wikipedia and Google!

You know, our freedoms are being challenged far too often by this current Congress and I don’t like it one bit.

In the meantime, I’m going to go backup all of my online writing onto my hard drive.