User blog comment:Craiglpalmer/SOPA and PIPA Situation Summary/@comment-2129140-20120118033256/@comment-4625146-20120118034646

Wikia most certainly can choose to protest using their website as a platform.

As for the Senate and House, they most certainly can pass legislation like this. I wrote a reply earlier here on this:

Your freedom of speech is not sacrosanct. Freedom of speech doesn't allow you to perpetrate hatred and encourage violence against certain groups as defined under federal law, for example. Generally, freedom of speech isn't protected when that speech's sole purpose is to perpetrate criminal activity (e.g. conspiracy to commit treason). It's in this established legal framework that laws like this can exist. (Just remember that this isn't the problem. That legal framework is what lends minorities protection from the mob, after all.)