Anyone not on tumblr may or may not be aware of SOPA (no one on Facebook except my journalist older sister knew what it was about) so I thought I'd post something here, just in case.

This is the quick summary of why I oppose it, from the petition to stop it on the White House website.

This Bill would allow A Great Firewall of America and would be a shameful desecration of free speech and any sort of reasonable copyright law. The new Law would allow copyright holders to force websites which have any copyrighted material to be blocked by ISP companies around the country, without requiring that the websites be given time to take the offending material down. It would also put pressure on ISP companies to monitor their users like never before, a gross invasion of privacy. This bill is a direct assault on a free internet and a shameful attempt by copyright lobbyists to destroy net neutrality. Essentially it's a censorship law that would end the internet as we know it in America.

I encourage you to read a bit about it--google "SOPA" and you should be able to find some articles for both sides. But if you do agree that SOPA should not pass, you can sign the White House petition against it. We still need about 5,000 signatures.
White House petition.