What you're saying about SOPA and PIPA

The media's blackout of the House's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Senate's Protect IP Act (PIPA) started from Day 1, but you've been talking about it for months. Follow this thread throughout the day as we'll continue to round up the SOPA/PIPA conversation in the Current.com community, as well as Twitter.

Today marks a blackout on the part of several websites, including Wikipedia and Reddit, who are going dark to protest both bills. 

To get started, here's a look from our partners at Crimson Hexagon at where the most social-network chatter about SOPA/PIPA has been happening (click on the graphic to see a larger version):

Here is a graph showing more detail on what people are saying about SOPA online (click here or on the image to see a larger version), and what the amount of social buzz has been about it since Oct. 25.

Today, several members of the Current.com community are participating in their own blackout. And, if you're still unclear on it all, here is a comprehensive roundup of the coverage of SOPA and PIPA from our friends at ProPublica.

Return for updates to this post through the day on what's being said in the Current community and on Twitter about the blackout...

Wikipedia will go dark in protest of SOPA. Now where am I supposed to find inaccurate information about SOPA?

— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) January 17, 2012

If #SOPA passes, there'll be NO YouTube, Twitter, Google, Wikipedia, Facebook & Tumblr, #SOPAstrike today and End Piracy, Not Liberty!

— David Shares (@DavidShares) January 18, 2012

Where do members of Congress stand on #SOPA & #PIPA? Handy graphic from @propublica bit.ly/wDJXgT

— Liz Heron (@lheron) January 18, 2012

Wonder how many people are calling the U.S. Capitol's switchboard at this very moment? The number, just FYI, is (202) 224-3121. #SOPA

— Declan McCullagh (@declanm) January 18, 2012

███ ██ █ ████ everything ███ █████ is █████ ████ ████ fine ████ ███ █ ██████ trust █████ ██████ ███ your █████ ████ government. #SOPA #PIPA

— Tim Pool (@Timcast) January 18, 2012

What's wrong with Wikipedia?

— Shit Girls Say (@shitgirlssay) January 18, 2012

I made an animated GIF about #SOPA bit.ly/wYE7zv

— Matthew Inman (@Oatmeal) January 18, 2012

The Wikipedia blackout presents a horrifying picture of a world with no knowledge. So does the Fox News website, which is running normally.

— Andy Daglas (@AndyDaglas) January 18, 2012

Headline: Wikipedia blackout causes huge spike in quality of student essays.

— zefrank (@zefrank) January 18, 2012

Tell your congressmen you want them to be pro-internet. My Facebook post is here: facebook.com/zuck/posts/101…

— Mark Zuckerberg (@finkd) January 18, 2012

And here's an amazing summary about #SOPA situation, written by our own Jon Gingerich. thenervousbreakdown.com/jgingerich/201…

— Chuck Palahniuk (@chuckpalahniuk) January 18, 2012

Under SOPA, you could get 5 years for uploading a Michael Jackson song. One year more than the doctor who killed him. #STOPSOPA

— The Illuminati (@ThelIluminati) January 18, 2012

The Internet is only the beginning. Next its music, then movies, last but not least YOU. End Piracy!! #StopSOPA

— Fail Whale (@TWlTTERWHALE) January 18, 2012

If SOPA passes I'm going to make a browser extension that restores order to the universe and installs Encarta.

— Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) January 18, 2012

The tweets must flow, #SOPA must go—let Congress know! stopthewall.us

— Biz Stone (@biz) January 18, 2012

The fact that the #SOPA blackout is a news event on the mainstream media is proof that it worked. You're delusional if you think otherwise.

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) January 18, 2012

Our community members chime in across all of Current's SOPA-related posts: