Today is an important day for web democracy. Hundred of sites decided to black out their site as a protest against Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate. The site is big and it keeps growing... just check some of the sites that have been black out (from a long list):

• Wikipedia
• Reddit
• Mozilla
• WordPress
• Icanhazcheezburger network sites (FailBlog, theDailyWhat,Know Your Meme, etc)
• Internet Archive
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Tor Project
• Craiglis
• Boingboing

This are just among the most important or relevant in today's world. What all those sites have in common. Their are amazing collaborative projects that give for free tools, knowledge and entertainment. Any of these sites make much money but they keep offering their services. Is easy to single a single individual of group that is behind this projects their presence on Intrenet is not the result of trying to sell a product. Their product is the site itself. By blackening their site they are only losing visitors... but if SOPA wins many of these sites will loose much more.

Know check some of the biggest names of the companies that support SOPA:

• Adidas America
• American Apparel and Footwear Association
• Autodesk, Inc.
• CBS Corporation
• Comcast Corporation
• Electronic Arts, Inc.
• Ford Motor Company
• Fortune Brands, Inc.
• NBCUniversal
• Nintendo of America Inc.
• Nike, Inc.
• Wal-Mart

All of these names (and many more in a long list) are big companies that sell their products to the people. Their objectives are pretty clear (make money), and they are supporting SOPA not to protect the Internet, but their own interests. For many of them the Internet is just a marketing tool more to sell their products. Their presence doesn't go beyond advertisement, and even the content producers haven't discovered a way to interact with the web. Controlling Internet is natural from them, because Internet is just a tool for their products.

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