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Speak up and say no to SOPA

This Is Important, You Should Know About It... PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo . The Internet Blacklist Bill — known as the “ PROTECT IP Act ” or S. 968 in the Senate and the “ Stop Online Piracy Act ” or H.R. 3261 in the House — has been discussed in the past , but crunch-time is upon us as Congress officially began holding hearings today on the most harmful Internet censorship legislation of our time. An informative video on the bill’s many ills has been posted above, but, in brief, the legislation, if passed, would essentially hand the Internet over to corporations, allowing them to sue and shut down any website that so much as hosts a link to copyrighted material. Internet Service Providers could be forced to block social media sites, search engines could be required to delete results, and startups could lose their funding — all on the whim of the copyright holder. Perhaps most distressing of all, however, is the fact that t