If you want to learn more about SOPA - http://americancensorship.org/ http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111121/00475016851/sopa-is-not-about-copyright-its-about-regulating-internet.shtml They will tell you it's all about online piracy. However, the authors have barely read their own bill - it gives media corporations large powers to censor anything they find without any due process. It's obvious they don't understand the technical, if not social, ramifications of this bill.