Leave the Internet Alone: Support Operation Blackout

Are we really surprised? I think we all knew it would just be a matter of time; the government is now going to attempt to regulate yet another area of the private sector: major internet companies are now directly in their line of destructive fire.

It's not enough that banks, oil, cars, and medicine are regulated to an obnoxious degree. Now Capitol Hill sees it "necessary" to have to touch Facebook, Google, Amazon, Wikipedia, and more, through a purported "Anti-piracy" bill. The companies are thinking of blacking out in protest, like Mozilla has already done.

I support "Operation Blackout." Call your senators; blow up their email in-boxes with your opinions.

To Congress, from me:

Leave the internet the heck alone, and don't make one more thing illegal; our prisons are already full enough; our taxes are already too high. If you're not going to regulate the pornography and the bomb-making websites, then you are hypocritical to regulate how these people make money in a legal, moral and honest manner. The internet is helping our economy stay alive, with literally millions upon millions of jobs in place with these companies, most of them nowhere near laying people off. If you change how they have to do business, you'll be placing unnecessary financial burdens on these companies, and as we've seen in the past, this usually leads to layoffs, higher taxes and disgruntled workers.

Consider the constituents you represent, who use the internet daily as a tool, and how it will effect them, and indeed you, in our everyday lives. Leave the people alone.