Blackout Against SOPA and PIPA

I'm not great with technology so I have no idea how to blackout my blogs in support of freedom of speech. Suffice to say that I am against anything that takes away a person's freedoms guaranteed by our Bill of Rights. I've been trying for the past 3 hours to figure out how to put the censor bar over my blog title and it isn't working. 

This is what I was hoping it would look like. Yay for Paint. Take action today. I have already emailed my Ohio Senators, Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman, and my district's House Representative Jean Schmidt. Find who to contact for your area here. Today's blackout post replaces the regularly scheduled Wednesday Weird. It will resume next week.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there.
Clare Boothe Luce

Monday Machination: Wikipedia Protests PIPA

The Internet Community is in cahoots!

Wikipedia.org joins Reddit.com, Boingboing.net, IHeartChaos.com, and all of the Cheeseburger Network (like icanhasacheezburger.com) on Wednesday in an English language blackout of their sites in protest of the Protect IP Act which hits the Senate floor on January 24th. Read the full article here.

All 3.8 million English-language pages on Wikipedia will be unavailable from 12am to 11:59pm on Wednesday. Originally, the community blackouts were intended to protest Stop Online Piracy Act, but was switched to PIPA when House Rep Cantor announced that SOPA would not come to a vote until later. This announcement came after a White House announcement pledging to oppose any legislation that would undermine the Internet dynamic.

So will it work? This has been in the works for a while now so I certainly hope so. At least, I hope it will make Americans more aware of exactly what their Senators and Representatives are trying to take away from them in Washington. Call your Senators and Representatives and tell them to vote NO on these acts that will limit the exercise of freedom of speech. You can find the phone numbers, emails, etc for your area here.

I must say that I am glad I changed up my dailies so that my Wednesday blog (what used to be Wednesday Wiki) isn't interrupted!