A very important message and action from Demand Progress please if you treasure an open free internet  like we do,...then, we need immediate action to stop this move by big money to destroy  the internet as we know it  in America and push this bill through it has draconian like  power to wipe all trace of sites from the web.-Figgdimension

Stop  the" Protect IP" Bill being slammed through Congress by Big Bis.

We knew it was coming: Members of Congress and their business allies were gearing up to pass a revised Internet Blacklist Bill -- which more than 325,000 Demand Progress members helped block last winter -- but we never expected it to be this atrocious.  Last year's bill has been renamed the "PROTECT IP" Act and it is far worse than its predecessor.

Senators Leahy and Hatch pretended to weigh free speech concerns as they revised the bill.  Instead, the new legislation would institute a China-like censorship regime in the United States, whereby the Department of Justice could force search engines, browsers, and service providers to block users' access to websites, and scrub the American Internet clean of any trace of their existence.

Will you urge Congress to oppose the PROTECT IP Act?  Just click here -- it'll only take a second.

Furthermore, it wouldn't just be the Attorney General who could add sites to the blacklist, but the new bill would allow any copyright holder to get sites blacklisted -- sure to result in an explosion of dubious and confused orders.

Please help us push Congress to reject the PROTECT IP Act:  Just click here.
Thanks for continuing the fight for a free and open Internet.
 -- The Demand Progress team 
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