User blog comment:Craiglpalmer/SOPA and PIPA Situation Summary/@comment-1904328-20120119204854

It's great that the thousands of websites protested against SOPA and PIPA. If they hadn't, I doubt it would raise the public's awareness. Despite the fact that these two bills in their current states could essentially destroy the Internet and throw us into the Dark Ages II, they have had little coverage. It's not that everything about these bills is bad. I understand that media industries are angry with piracy and that's fine, but censoring the Internet is not the way to solve this problem. If the senators and representatives in the U.S. government were not so out of touch in today's world, they would realize that the common individual knows the the importance of the Internet is unmatched, and censoring and destroying our most invaluable device is not in our best interest.