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We've put this splash page up in lieu of our regular home page to protest SOPA (stop online piracy act bill in the US Senate) and PIPA (protect IP act bill in the US House of Represenatives).
If these bills pass, someday all you may find at our address is what's above the red line on this page, [CONTENT UNAVAILABLE] and the rest might be blocked. This could also happen to Google, Youtube, the Cheezeburger Network, Facebook, Twitter, Hulu, Netflix, Craigslist, Wikipedia and countless other sites and blogs, many of which wouldn't have the money to fight to get their sites back, no matter how innocent they were.
SOPA and PIPA give big entertainment companies the right to have websites blocked to US users on the basis of their complaint that the site might infringe a copyright. Nothing has to be proven to block the site, it just has to be alleged: guilty until proven innocent. These bills make owners of sites and networks like ours responsible for policing every single word anyone else posts, in fear that someone might post something that would get us blocked.
Intellectual property theft does happen, it is theft and it is harmful but SOPA and PIPA are like trying to prevent shoplifting by removing everyone's hands in advance, just in case they were thinking about it.
Read more about why these bills are harmful and what you can do at http://americancensorship.org/ and http://fightforthefuture.org/, and please contact your Senators and Representatives and tell them you want them to oppose SOPA and PIPA.
Read these bills for yourself to see what they're really about:
SOPA at: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3261: