…And I’ve been playing too much Team Fortress 2. Well, I’ve been playing less since I did this comic in August, but I still play occasionally. If you’re into that sort of thing, find me on Steam, I usually go by the name Buffy the Vampire Spayer.

SOPA and PIPA, if implemented would just prove to be arbitrary and draconian laws hindering the intellectual and creative capabilities of the internet without actually blocking copyrighted contentent or cutting off sources from which copyrighted content can be accessed. Thus the ability to knock out sites deemed to be in violation of these two acts (should they be passed) would be in the hands of more or less the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) acting as sort of “creativity police” in the name of protecting copyrighted material.

These two pieces of legislation are horribly dangerous to all of our freedoms of speech and the livelihood of many people who work for internet-based companies. At the end of the day, SOPA and PIPA don’t protect anything, they just drop obscene amounts of power into the hands of a few lobbyists that can (and will) be abused to censor free speech and free creativity on the internet.

If you are interested in keeping the internet free and open, I would highly suggest getting in contact with your friendly local representative in government and tell them that SOPA and PIPA are horrible ideas and internet freedom is the x-treme thing for kool kongresspeople.

ILY 4EVA
Mark D.

Hey, that wasn’t very politically correct!