Follow the news; keep informed.  Unfortunately, although the sponsors of the bill have “backed off” a bit, they’ve already decided they want pass these laws.  Although the DNS-blocking portion of SOPA has been removed, it can be amended back in later, or easily added to another bill when nobody’s looking.

Today is SOPA Resistance Day at Ars. Sites across the ‘Net, from reddit to the Internet Archive, from Wikipedia to Google, are protesting the excesses of the Stop Online Piracy Act. SOPA remains a flawed bill that treats piracy as an existential threat to the US economy and to a sacred class of rightsholders—and in doing so loses all perspective on appropriate remedies. The discussion is absolutely unbalanced.

Many sites have chosen to go dark (i.e., offline) today, a stance we respect—but it’s not the right path for us. Ars Technica has, for 14 years, tried to be an information resource, and the most appropriate response from Ars is to provide even more information on the legislation, how you can fight it, and what’s really at stake.

via SOPA Resistance Day begins at Ars.

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