On January 18th many websites including Tumblr are going black for one of the largest Internet protest in Internet history. Thousands of sites taking part in the protest and will be directing people to contact Congress to kill SOPA and PIPA.

On Januray 24th the Senate is going to vote on PIPA which is the Senates version of SOPA. And here is a little clip from an email I got today.

In just 7 days, the Senate will vote on forever altering the free and open internet by instituting a new regime of extra-judicial, corporate-led website takedowns. This is a fundamental fight about who has power in society — the people with the means to communicate freely or the governments and corporations that feel threatened.

{ For some stats on the Bills go here. } 

Pretty much, if these bills are passed it could not only effect the U.S., but other countries around the world.

For more information check out these sites.

• Tumblr’s Page
• Why SOPA is DANGEROUS
• American Censorship
• Mozilla’s SOPA site 
• Stop the E-PARASITE Act
• Stop the internet control bill Petition
• AVAAZ - Save the Internet
• SOPA Strike
• SOPA Blackout
• American Censorship Petition
• Google’s Petition
• PIPA and SOPA Co-Sponsors Abandon Bills

So, please do you part even if you aren’t in the U.S.