Many websites showed a black-out protest page or some information about the proposed SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) bill. I'm not against stopping piracy, however the tools used to achieve that shouldn't allow for far-fetching internet censorship and to me it looks like this bill is doing just that.
Of course you should inform yourself and if you're in the USA please act and let your voice be heard.
You can read about the SOPA here:
EFF: One Page Guide To SOPA
Red-IT: A technical overview of the SOPA and PIPA bills
Dyn: How these bills would break DNS
EFF: Free speech on the web
Act: Contact information for US elected officials
Why do I care? Simple, if this bill and the IP bill are implemented, I'm sure several European governments will try to find a way to do exactly the same. All leading to a heavily censored internet with no more free speech.
Update:
There are some interesting articles in Forbes:
You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You
and its follow up:
Lies, Damned Lies and Piracy
