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"Today you'll find several of your favorite websites protesting against SOPA and PIPA (Google, Wikipedia\u00A0and Reddit among others). Significant moves for a significant bill.\r\n\r\nNo matter what you think of piracy, when looking at the bills being proposed to Congress it seems unrealistic that they will kill piracy - but they definitively\u00A0will censor the Internet and kill the Web as we know it today.\r\n\r\nWhilst this is primarily happening in the US, Internet citizens all over the world will be affected when one of these bills gets passed. Search engines, blogs like this one and the way you communicate via social media or upload videos, songs or photos - all will be dramatically affected and change the way you use the Internet.\r\nWhat can I do?\r\nLearn all about it\r\nHere's a basic\u00A0SOPA for Dummies guide\u00A0with everything you need to know. Digest it and get comfortable speaking about it, the Internet needs you to know what you're talking about. This will come in particularly handle when you...\r\n\r\n\r\n Contact your Congressperson\u00A0(if you are in US)\r\nContact your congressperson and make sure they know you're against SOPA and urge them to vote against it. Be vocal about your concerns and explain that while initial impressions of the bill seem positive, there's a dark undercurrent that needs to be addressed that could have drastically negative affects on the Internet as we know it.\r\n\r\nSpread the word!\u00A0Similarly, raise awareness by spreading the word on SOPA or the below video on your Twitter, Facebook or Google+ account, or anywhere else. Make sure the world knows you're against it and drive your friends - even the non-geeks - to get involved.\r\n\r\nTalk to your employers\r\nA lot of tech-giants are now against SOPA. Talk to your employers, however large and small, educate them on the matter if need be and urge them to come out strongly against SOPA.\r\n\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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