Congress is now in recess and putting off their vote on the controversial SOPA Legislation until next year. So I am taking a day to research the two sides of the the bill. My questions:

• Why has this bill been proposed?
• Will the ramifications as bad as they are hyped to be?
• What are the arguments for/against the legislation?
• Can I support the right for intelectual property and be against this bill?

To start, I’m stacking my sources. On twitter I have been getting some grave stories from Tim Karr CDT and EFF, and I’ve read an interesting article or two on the subject. I’m trying to go a little deeper by looking at who wants this legislation passed. To get a complete story I’m porting a list of SOPA supporters put together by digitaltrends to a twitter list of my own. It has already provided me with some good articles, and a decent overview of the type of companies and interest groups that are pushing this legislation forward.

And after adding a bunch of twitter links to this post I am remembering a WP addon that I may want to add… where was that?

Update: I have to link this letter b/c digital trends linked to a google redirect and I cant save it in zotero. lazy linking.