We the People 1, Corporate Voldemorts 0- at least today:)

Go figure. Looks like Congress paid attention when dozens of leading websites, and millions of concerned US netizens, united their voices against this SOPA/PIPA crap:

When the powerful world of old media mobilized to win passage of an online antipiracy bill, it marshaled the reliable giants of K Street — the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Recording Industry Association of America and, of course, the motion picture lobby, with its new chairman, former Senator Christopher J. Dodd, the Connecticut Democrat and an insider’s insider.

Yet on Wednesday this formidable old guard was forced to make way for the new as Web powerhouses backed by Internet activists rallied opposition to the legislation through Internet blackouts and cascading criticism, sending an unmistakable message to lawmakers grappling with new media issues: Don’t mess with the Internet.

As a result, the legislative battle over two once-obscure bills to combat the piracy of American movies, music, books and writing on the World Wide Web may prove to be a turning point for the way business is done in Washington. It represented a moment when the new economy rose up against the old.

The scary thing is that the not-so-Loyal Opposition seemed to Get It before my own party did. Marco! Rubio!, The junior senator from Cuba Florida, was among the first to change his position on this clusterfuck, bucking even his Florida-based Disney constituency in opposing these potential limits and controls on our Internet privacy and freedoms.  Others of that ilk, Texas's Cornyn, South Carolina's DeMint, and Iowa's Grassley also jumped sides in favor of truth, justice and the American way- at least this one time.

The cynic in me wonders if some Tea Party conspiracy theorists decided that these restrictions could be used against their anti-Obama propaganda campaigns, and that they're just biding their time until after the election. I'd also feel better if either, or even better both, of my allegedly Democratic Senators would drop their co-sponsoring of the Senate version of this legal abortion.

For the moment, though, I'm happy to dance on the MPAA's grave.  Even if the moves are copyrighted to Michael Jackson's publishing company.