The SOPA Strike

You may have heard of the US law changes being made to supposedly stop online piracy.

Now while one has never been a great advocate of piracy - it's just too much effort for one as lazy as I - one can see the implications of websites being forced to close because it is possible for copyright materials to be posted and/or shared in the comments pages; and the simple next step that these allow of government censorship of criticisms in the name of protecting the "public" - definitely worthy of a Caution.

One shall be making the great sacrifice of stopping one's prolific output on The Tales for several days in order to help bring wider attention to the Internet Strike. You may find sites such as Wikipedia following one's lead today.

I middling sized summary is here:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57329001-281/how-sopa-would-affect-you-faq/

A more extensive collection of information is here:
http://youranonnews.tumblr.com/post/15783460213/stop-sopa-the-essentials-summary-and-bill-text