User blog comment:Craiglpalmer/SOPA and PIPA Situation Summary/@comment-4911394-20120118010703/@comment-893506-20120118011454

You seem to be misinformed, so I'm going to tell you: websites are blacking out in order to both protest SOPA and PIPA, and to raise awareness to both bills, as well as what they would do to the internet should they become laws.

Neither SOPA nor PIPA are censoring anything right now, because neither of them have passed.