The SOPA act. It is the Stop Online Piracy Act.
I understand we use steam which prevents that, but this act would allow the government and gigantic companies to freely censor whatever they would like on websites such as Reddit, Youtube, Myspace, Facebook, any website where we have the freedom to say and share what we like.
But understand this is not just a removal of copyright infringement. This act would allow them to saturate bomb entire websites by forcefully shutting them down. Meaning they aren't going to just edit it, they will TAKE IT AWAY.
It can all be taken away if this act is pushed through on THIS Wednesday 21.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?src_vid=_6Ye21JEOOo&feature=iv&annotation_id%20=annotation_317237&v=JhwuXNv8fJM The gentleman in the video does an amazing job of going into detail of how this would greatly harm what most of us here love the most.
His video also links to further information on the SOPA act as well as the PIPA act, which is just as volatile.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet <- Link to a site where you can sign a petition to hopefully prevent them from passing these acts.
Apologies again for off-topic, but I felt strongly enough that this needed to be voiced.