First off I'd like to say grats for the IRL ding... We really acheived something here, and pissed off a lot of people in the process... So good troll everyone.  Now onto the real story...  Today, Friday Janurary 20th 2012, SOPA was dropped by congress in the direct wake of the and I quote "largest internet protest ever."  Over 13 million people raided online and filled out a petition to let congress know this crap ain't gonna fly.  Since old people don't know how to disable java, I'm pretty sure some of these congress people were like "yo.. I can't wiki myself today"  followed by a "Oh crap it's an election year"  all i'm sayin' is it's like a shoe store in DC, so many flip-flops!

Now, We aren't out of the woods yet...  Harry Reid according to Fox News stated "he will postpone an upcoming vote on his chamber's proposal. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, quickly followed suit, saying consideration of a similar House bill would be postponed "until there is wider agreement on a solution."  Or until 2013 when we are out of an election year right???

Yep!  I honestly don't feel we are out of the woods yet and this subject will be brought up after the election... REMEMBER kids, this isn't the first time they tried to censor the web.. Last time they shut down Napster (once)...

Here's the problem with our society (especially those on the internet) our collective memory is like 2 weeks.  We are going to forget about this, and that's when they will pass it... When we are sleeping, on the weekend, and it will go without a sound..  WE CANNOT LET UP on this...  I think that we need to make Janurary 18th a day of rememberance.  "The day the internet went dark, Janurary 18th 2012."

I've been reading a lot of articles on the day of victory... or things like "SOPA drops the SOAP" (not even funny).  Saying how it's been dropped, we won blah blah blah...  Nope, look at that article from Fox News, or anything else main stream (you know Companies that supported the bills).....  I know since Google is involved it would have to be a pretty big slip for them to miss this...

I really want to keep on this, and I suggest you all do too.  If we continue our effort we can succeed.  Also, make sure you let your local congress person and senator know how you feel about this...  They work for us remember that!

Anyways... I'm glad everyone is happy and I'm not saying we didn't win today....  The battle was won... But I'm certain this isn't the last we've seen of SOPA.

Tomorrow Janurary 18th, Wikipedia (English) will shut down for 24 hours to protest SOPA and PIPA  (stop online piracy act and the protect IP act.  Both are internet censorship.  Along with those big hitters sites like Wordpress and twitpic will be down.  Google facebook twitter and tumblr won't be doing anything... which in my opinion is stupid since they could tell everyone in the US whats going on in one day!  

Wiki gets about 25 million visitors a day (this should stir up something)

 However Google and Facebook are both against the internet censorship laws.

This is a letter endorsed by AOL, eBay, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Mozilla, Twitter, Yahoo! and Zyngastated:

"Unfortunately, the bills as drafted would expose law-abiding U.S. Internet and technology companies to new uncertain liabilities, private rights of action, and technology mandates that would require monitoring of web sites. We are concerned that these measures pose a serious risk to our industry's continued track record of innovation and job-creation, as well as to our Nation's cybersecurity. We cannot support these bills as written and ask that you consider more targeted ways to combat foreign 'rogue' websites dedicated to copyright infringement and trademark counterfeiting, while preserving the innovation and dynamism that has made the Internet such an important driver of economic growth and job creation." 

More on this can be found here.  

Source CBS News.