What a difference a day makes!
While everyone agrees that piracy of intellectual property is a serious problem which must be addressed, it's clear, in my personal view, that SOPA and PIPA were not the right way to fix the problem.
This week, the Congress -- both Republicans and Democrats -- ran away from this horrible legislation virtually overnight after individual citizens asked them to do exactly that.
Check out the graphic above which shows 80 supporters and 31 opponents on Jan. 18 and then one day after citizens spoke out, 65 supporters and 101 opponents.
And one day after that, both the House and Senate leadership essentially sent the bills authors back to the drawing boards. This happened of course, not because of the lobbyists and PAC money... if that was going to decide it, the legislation would have passed. These bills were killed because of real people calling their Congressional representatives.
We need more of that in Washington, in my view.
