Tomorrow, January 18th, 2012 many of your favorite sites will be “going dark” in protest of the SOPA and PIPA acts being floated around and debated in Congress. What’s SOPA and PIPA you ask? Why you can just go here to find out(It was a very well written article I might add).

Here is the current list of sites planning to go dark:

Google will post a link on its home page to a document explaining its opposition to the bill.

Mozilla.com, home of the popular Web browser Firefox, will go dark.

Salutations loyal Hip Hop Democrat readers! To quote that wacky guy who helped save the day in the movie Independence Day… I’mmmmmmmm baaaaaaaaaaaaaack!! Did you miss me? No? Well I sure missed you all! Sorry to have stayed away so long, but sometimes life does indeed get in the way. And rather than bore you to tears with the reasons why I was gone so long, let’s just jump right into something we should all be more worried about than my misadventures in life. I know, what’s more important than me right? Well this is: