SOPA and PIPA Cancelled

YAY! We did it people. It was a group effort. Today both SOPA and PIPA were tabled by congress. Tiffinly Cheng writes for fightforthefuture.org:

A big hurrah to you!!!!! We’ve won for now — SOPA and PIPA were dropped by Congress today — the votes we’ve been scrambling to mobilize against have been cancelled.

The largest online protest in history has fundamentally changed the game.  You were heard.

On January 18th, 13 million of us took the time to tell Congress to protect free speech rights on the internet. Hundreds of millions, maybe a billion, people all around the world saw what we did on Wednesday.  See the amazing numbers here and tell everyone what you did.

Of course it is possible, even likely, that these bills will come back in different forms, different names, even as amendments to different bills. The MPAA and their congressional lapdogs will try to get these types of Internet breaking laws passed anyway they can. But we have won for now. One of the sponsors of the bills writes:

“’This is altogether a new effect,’ Mr. Dodd said, comparing the online movement to the Arab Spring. He could not remember seeing ‘an effort that was moving with this degree of support change this dramatically’ in the last four decades, he added.”   -Mr. Chris Dodd

So celebrate that your Internet remains free and open, at least for now. But remain vigilant and pay attention for when these bills come back.