Not enough people realize that the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is going to affect them. Currently, the social media website Reddit plans to go dark for a period of 12 hours on January 18th, 2012, to raise public awareness of SOPA before the bill goes to a vote on January 24th, 2012. But Reddit alone is not enough. Google and Facebook reach a much wider audience, and the shutting down of their websites will surely raise the awareness necessary to put an end to this bill.

To learn more about SOPA:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act