User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Battle for the Net: Internet Slowdown/@comment-24367396-20140911064033/@comment-20644-20140911065459

No, this is unrelated. SOPA and PIPA were about attempting to create new regulations for intellectual property/copyright that ultimately would have come down too hard on content hosts, Wikia included. This is about access to the internet, and whether or not companies will have to pay a fee in order for people to have unobstructed access to their websites.