User blog comment:Evolved To'kustar/SOPA & PIPA/@comment-3471971-20120125095145/@comment-34326521-20120125101930

Yup. But it doesn't matter. It won't pass, as long as we all do what we can to stop it.

Any one of these would give the USA government control over a very large portion of the internet. Not direct control, as in "we can do whatever we want", but they could sue anyone for copyright infringement and have websites shut down permanently because of it, even if they didn't own whatever they were complaining about. For obvious reasons, nobody with a brain wants this. It could be used to shut down any website that said or showed something they didn't want it to show, or just to make a "few" million dollars.