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The largest coordinated online protest in the internet's history is going on today, with the goal of stopping legislation that threatens the internet as we know it. If you think the internet is pretty cool the way it is, take a few minutes to click some of these links or at least share this post with others.
Good video explaining the bills, "SOPA" and "PIPA": http://vimeo.com/31100268
An open letter written by "83 prominent Internet inventors and engineers", strongly opposing these measures with excellent explanations: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/internet-inventors-war...
Some of the larger sites protesting today, with more details and easy ways to take action: https://www.google.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/ http://eugene.craigslist.org/ (all craigslist sites) http://www.reddit.com/ http://www.wired.com/ http://wordpress.com/ http://www.mozilla.org/ http://php.net/ http://www.rackspace.com/ http://oreilly.com/ http://boingboing.net/ http://xkcd.com/ http://blog.flickr.net/en http://www.gnu.org/ http://techcrunch.com/ http://imgur.com/ http://www.newgrounds.com/