Just contacted my representatives.
I hope that enough people have done the same to let them know that SOPA and PROTECT IP are a bad thing. It would be a true shame to see the internet broken up via censorship.

@ MrPete:

I know. Our politicians love to export our broken laws all over the world. It makes sense – we have a crippling and stupid law on the books, while the rest of the world is sitting out there laughing at us, and doing perfectly fine without such a legislation. Our politicians decide it’s not fair that other countries don’t have to abide by the same broken set of laws as we do, so they go proselytize and convert oversees governments to adopt it.

I guess what I’m saying is, we apologize. This country is run by bunch of techno-phobic incompetents.

I definitely hope that this gets stopped before gathering more momentum.
Otherwise it’s very likely that it’ll jump over the ocean and get implemented “to the better protection of IP” here in Europe as well.
In my lifetime, I fear. Because if there’s one thing that the usually slow churning mills of european politics picked up is the improved speed of information transport thanks to the ‘net. Roughly following this train of thought: “there’s a new idea on the other side of the ocean. It’s very much in the press so it has to be good for our people too!”