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The following landed in my inbox today. Do you care about an un-censored internet? I do.

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Manuel,

Bad news first: Yesterday afternoon the Senate Judiciary Committee passed the new Internet Blacklist Bill — the PROTECT IP ACT.

The good news: Within minutes, Demand Progress ally Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) placed what’s known as a “hold” on the bill, buying us some time and drawing attention to our cause.

PROTECT IP would let the government force Internet service providers, search engines, and other “information location tools” to block users’ access to sites that have been accused of copyright infringement — creating a China-like censorship regime here in the United States.

Nobody’s organizing against this noxious bill as aggressively as we are. Will you help us keep up our work?

Click here to become a Demand Progress monthly sustainer.

(You can cancel your donations at any time.)

If you can’t become a sustainer, could you donate $5 or $10 today by clicking here?

Opposition to the bill is snowballing: Google, Yahoo, and the Computer and Communications Industry Association, Consumer Electronics Association, and Net Coalition are making their opposition vocal. Demand Progress and a dozen other civil liberties and human rights groups circulated a letter in opposition this week.

Most impressively, more than 3,000 Demand Progress members called Washington to urge their lawmakers to vote no.

We’re an entirely member-funded organization. Will you help us keep up our work?

Thanks for your ongoing support.

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