In protest of SOPA and PIPA, Tumblr is encouraging bloggers to black out their blogs for today. They’ll even call you to give you talking points and then connect you with your Senator. Wikipedia also is shut down for the day. They’re sharing information on PIPA and SOPA here and Conner encourages you to be informed! Google is also appropriately-themed for today. Instead of blacking out my blog - or continuing to never update it - I decided to get one of my friends who can Photoshop (and doesn’t take screenshots and paste them into Word and take more screenshots as her “photoshopping” technique) to make me an appropriate banner for the day. 

I like the Internet and I like it how it is. It’s open and it’s informative and full of info on the gumboot chiton. Do you love the Internet and free expression? Call your representatives! Wikipedia has a great page with info and a representative-lookup here!