The Senate is threatening to pass its version of the Internet censorship bill — the PROTECT IP Act — when it returns from winter break later this month. Will you tweet at Senate leadership to ask them to kill the legislation? Just click here:
If you’re already on Twitter, click here to tweet a Senate leadership.
Millions of Americans have emailed their own senators to ask them to oppose the legislation — which is a big part of why we’ve been able to hold the bill up this long. (For more info about the bill, you can click here.)
But some members of the Senate are more powerful than others, and we need to let Senate leadership — Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, and Mitch McConnell — know how upset we are that this legislation is on their agenda. They have the power to block a vote from happening.
We need to make them understand that hundreds of thousands of us are paying attention and will be looking to this issue when we decide whom to vote for in this year’s elections.
Normally we’d ask you to email them, but Senate offices block emails from people with out-of-state zip codes, so we’re asking you to tweet at them instead.
You can use this link to generate a tweet to those three Senators — you can use the language we’ve included, or modify it:
If you’re already on Twitter, click here to tweet a Senate leadership.
We have another tough couple of weeks in front of us, and appreciate your continued work on this issue. To win this fight we’re going to need stay active to stick together.
— Demand Progress
Related articles
- Fight For The Future (taholtorf.wordpress.com)
- Opposing the Senate’s PROTECT-IP Act (nateshiff.wordpress.com)
- SOPA firefight comes to CES (ces.cnet.com)
- Fight PIPA, SOPA’s Senate cousin, with this Senate scorecard (boingboing.net)
Turn the Page 
Nate Shiff
January 11, 2012 at 3:28 pm
Hey, dude! Saw that you hit me up with a ping-back. Yeah, I am almost in disbelief about these. I don’t believe in copyright in the first place, particularly in its grotesque form of today. I can see that, for companies who believe their interests are best served by copyright, it’s plausible that SOPA and PROTECT-IP were drafted with good intentions. However, as you mention, the bills overreach their intention of protecting copyright. SOPA/PIPA are censorship bills. DNS-blocking a whole website for one infringing link? What is this, fucking Iran? China? It’s censorship, and it’s unconstitutional. Definitely happy to see that you are spreading awareness!
Tim
January 12, 2012 at 1:43 pm
I think that a lot of bills and laws are drafted with the best intentions, but they just aren’t thought through enough. But in this case, it’s just downright censorship at it’s worst. I don’t live in the States, but often other countries take their cues from the U.S. Which often can the old saying be brought up, “if the U.S. jumped off a bridge and killed itself, does that mean you have to as well”.