Help Stop Internet Censorship!

Did you want to look up something on Wikipedia today and notice you couldn't?

Did you notice that Google's logo has been censored by a big black box?

Across the Internet, dozens of websites are going offline or changing their front pages today to spread the word about two controversial bills in Congress. The first is SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act. The second is PIPA, the Protect IP Act. Both of these bills are supposed to fight Internet piracy, but in reality they wouldn't be able to stop piracy and would only harm law-abiding citizens by censoring websites and content and placing the power of what can stay on the Internet to giant corporations.

Fortunately, the big names of the Internet are aware of how dangerous these bills would be if they passed, and are staging a protest today to fight it. If you care about the Internet you're using right now, please take a moment to sign a few petitions and shoot an email to your state representatives and senators. These bills cannot be allowed to pass, and the message that the Internet will not tolerate censorship must be made clear.

A partial list of today's protestors includes the following websites:

Google - The search engine giant has censored its logo and put up a petition you can sign. As the most popular website in the world, Google will undoubtedly be a huge help in spreading the word of these bills.
Wikipedia - Wikipedia has shut down its entire English-language website today. Wikipedia is by far the largest site to shut down entirely in protest, and some consider it the "leader" of today's fight.
Imgur - This online picture-hosting service has an anti-SOPA message on its front page.
Reddit - A social news website, Reddit has been vocally anti-SOPA and anti-PIPA for quite some time. It's offline until this evening.
Fark - An irreverent site that spreads around links to the latest news, Fark simultaneously parodies and joins the movement by claiming they support SOPA because if it passed they'd get shut down and they wouldn't have to do any more work.
Cheezburger Network - This collection of humor sites is the official site for "LOLCats" - the captioned cat photos that have spread across the Internet. A number of other comedy websites are hosted here as well, including "Oh Internet" and "LOLCelebs".
Mozilla - The official website of the creators of Firefox has gotten in on the act.
Tumblr - This blog network allows every individual blogger to decide for themselves if they'd like to censor their blog today.
Twitpic - Twitpic, which is a special picture-hosting service for Twitter, is against the bills as well.
MoveOn - Of course an advocacy website would join in.
Dozens of other websites - WordPress, Miro, TV Tropes, Newgrounds, Good.is, XKCD, DeviantArt, Destructoid, and more.

And although they aren't joining today's protest, Facebook, Amazon, YouTube, Yahoo, and Twitter have also spoken out against the bill, meaning that all five of the most popular English-language websites (Google, Facebook, Yahoo, YouTube, and Wikipedia) are vocally against the bill.

Visit Google for more information and a petition. Keep the Internet free!

List of petitions to sign:
Google
Avaaz
PopVox

This petition on We the People has already finished with an official response from the White House:
We the People