User blog comment:Caring16/Stop SOPA before it takes are fandom away!/@comment-4449950-20140318045630

Before you all freak and lose yourselves, take a step back and make sure you understand exactly what is happening.

To start, SOPA is not coming back. It was well and truly rejected a few years back, and is gone for good. What the people are proposing now are different, majorly watered-down versions of some SOPA laws they still want accepted. There are three major sections to this. 2 are not so bad, because they are already in use on many major sites, and the people trying to get these rules passed just want more sites to take them up and use them - or so they say.

However, there is one section that is threatening to the fandoms, though in exactly what way is unknown, due to the fact that these new options haven't been passed, or even entirely agreed upon. Plus the different countries who may be involved will have their own versions etc etc.

I recommend reading this journal article by a DeviantArt user who very carefully tries to explain what is happening. As they say at the end, running around going on about SOPA is useless, as that's not even what we should be fighting.