User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-24481271-20140206093831/@comment-4811793-20140206121651

Well, although there is a ton of overlap in the protests when it comes to the groups supporting them, SOPA and PIPA were both very different matters. Their scope was primarily in the intellectual property arena, with a focus on copyright. This is more about mass surveillance and domestic spying. FISA has been around for wuite some time and the remit of the law is much more in line with national security. Certainly there's lots of popular desire to reform it one way or the other, but the law is already on the books and the two proposed legislations are aimed at fixing it.