BeardedDragon.org is Protesting

This page will be displayed for 10 minutes at the top of every hour (today only).

Imagine that this site were gone. Imagine the information and knowledge of the Internet not being freely available.

SOPA Strike Home Page

This message is here to raise awareness regarding a bill being proposed that will stifle the Internet. It is an brute effort by ignorant politicians to "stop online piracy", but is so over-reaching as to become a vehicle for extreme Internet censorship.

Join Google, Yahoo!, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, AOL, LinkedIn, eBay, Wikimedia Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the ACLU, and BeardedDragon.org in letting our legislators know that SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) is NOT acceptable.

Find out (from Wikipedia) who your representatives are.
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This video covers an extensive discussion regarding the issues with SOPA/PIPA:

This one is more entertaining, but on point...

This video summarizes the issues fairly well:

This article does a good job at talking about the larger political issue here, and how this blackout protest is because things are going way way too far.

Check out these Wikipedia links for information on SOPA (which is the bad thing), and the opposition to it (a good thing).

Google also has something for this. If you go to their main home page today, you'll see that the logo is "blacked out". Clicking on that logo goes to Google's informational page regarding the "strike".

Wikipedia also has a page specifically about this "blackout".

This message will be displayed for 10 minutes at the top of every hour for the rest of today. I hope that it is not too terribly inconvenient for you. SOPA certainly would be.