Please, Stop SOPA (and related bills)

Man, I though people would understand that giving the government (or anyone for that matter) the right to just take down webpages without any legal procedure or recourse for wrongful action is incredibly bad for the private citizen.

Not because people don't have the right to protect their copyrights, because they do.
Not because counterfeit products aren't incredibly harmful to name brands and safety regulations, because they are.

Because SOPA is built on the idea that in order to fight copyright theft, and to fight online based counterfeiting, they want the power to control what is a part of the internet and what isn't.

I didn't really pay attention to the SOPA debate until I realized that it hadn't yet been shot down as unconstitutional (which I happen to believe it is). A few good members of congress filibustered the thing and gave us more time to contact our representatives about this.

The shut down and seizure of any personal or professional property without legal recourse or warning is tyranny.

When Net Neutrality became threatened by ISP's wanting the throttle connections to certain webpages, certain companies, or anyone based on who they were, We The People, said, "NO."

Now our very right to post topics even ABOUT copyrighted material (as I understand it, even including a simple copyrighted picture can put you under the cross-hairs of SOPA) your website can be taken down without warning or recourse.

The best analogy I can make is that you put up a sign on your lawn that includes some copyrighted material(say, the font used to make the sign just to be a little ridiculous) so the government is free to come and take your whole damn house from you. No warning, no recourse to get it back.

I'd give you links to all these articles that cover SOPA and what it means, what it does, and why it's good or bad, but I found out what I found out by a simple Google News search. I'm not linking to it because, well, according to the basics of SOPA, even mentioning it might violate the law and thus have my blogsite taken down.