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If you don't live in the U.S., you can petition the State Department.

Try petitioning the State Department:
http://americancensorship.org/modal/state-dept-petition/index.html

"If you don't live in the U.S., you can petition the State Department." http://americancensorship.org/#petition-state-department

"I am talking about how half of us don't even FUCKING VOTE."
Yes, but stop for a minute and think, given all that you say in your post (which I mostly agree with) about how broken and corrupt the system is and how fucked we may be in the [near]future - can you understand why some people do not believe their vote matters? If things are really as bad as you say - "This is all about domination and control by the rulers of this country" - then it does not by definition. I am not talking about the people too lazy to vote or who just don't give a shit. I talking about people that have lost faith in the entire system because of this kind of bullshit. Personally, I do vote - just in case it does matter. Or should I say - while it still sorta matters. However can you imagine how little faith I can put in our lawmakers for even thinking about bills like SOPA/PIPA. Lobbying power on this one is across party lines so does it matter who you vote for. How disgusting things have become. I hope this is a wake-up call for people, I know is has been for me. As long at there is corporate bribery (lobbying) no party or politician can be trusted to act for the people.

"Just whine about it all at the kitchen table"
FYI: I did fill out a petition here http://americancensorship.org/ and intend to write my congress-people.

I should have taken the Blue Pill..

http://americancensorship.org/

These infographics might be the most succint and direct explanations of why SOPA is bad.

Here's a site to quickly push a complaint to those who need your votes:

American Censorship.org

Think we can Slashdot it?

Yes I have, as part of the scheme being run by http://americancensorship.org/. We also have a very annoying splashscreen on /index.php, which is viewable at the link if you have javascript enabled, and a big black bar over our logo at the top of every single page.

However, not all of our members are in the US; if I had to guess, maybe 10k are. Of that, how many will actually give enough of a damn to contribute?

I admin a forum with a little over 30k members.

In the past, we've had a former member we've banned file a false DMCA claim against us and successfully take us down. We moved DNS and have been up since; For the record, 1and1 didn't even investigate, whereas our replacement, GoDaddy, kept a note of the circumstances and have notified us when that same person has tried to take us down again.

If this passes, our little forum is fucked. No two ways about it; Somebody will get butthurt about being banned and we'll get taken down, again - but this time, there's a risk of actual criminality behind it.

Don't tell me that this will be carefully used and no false claims will succeed, because we've been on the wrong end of that tale before.

Today, we're participating in the scheme being run by http://americancensorship.org/; If you run a site, regardless of mission, you should too.