So no doubt some of you would have noticed Wikipedia, Google, reddit, and some 75,000 other websites went dark on the 18th in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act, and the Protect IP Act that were meant to come before the House of Representatives, and the Senate in the US.
Some may well be thinking, 'well okay... something American, what's it got to do with me?'
Well... In short. A whole lot. We last heard of something like this back in 2008*... That didn't go down too well, but back then, even America was against censorship on the internet.
To save all the hugely ambiguous jargon, watch this.
As it stands, unless you have friends or family in the US that can have a chat with their local candidates on this issue there's unfortunately not a whole lot we can do. If it passes however, it sets and extremely dangerous precedent. Without the free circulation of information, we really are at the mercy of our governments. For those thinking it'll never happen here, well, they've already tried once, and with the backing of the 'leader of the free world', it may well be different the next time they try.
* the Australian attempt was to be fair, it's own monster. But at the end of the day, censorship is censorship.