Given that I am writing this on Janualy 18th, I assume no one will really be reading it untill we get out of the Blackout, but Smokee.com has chosen to show its protest of the SOPA legislation by going dark on Janualy 18th 2012.  We strongly oppose throwing due process out the window for the benefit of the powerful.  For this one day, the people of the world will have to do without their Electronic Cigarette Reviews.

The quote below is a well stated statement from Wikipedia who is also joining the SOPA protest

“SOPA and PIPA cripple the free and open internet. They put the onus on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the blocking of entire sites, even if the links are not to infringing material. Small sites will not have the sufficient resources to mount a legal challenge. Without opposition, large media companies may seek to cut off funding sources for small competing foreign sites, even if big media are wrong. Foreign sites will be blacklisted, which means they won’t show up in major search engines.

In a post SOPA/PIPA world, Wikipedia –and many other useful informational sites– cannot survive in a world where politicians regulate the Internet based on the influence of big money in Washington. It represents a framework for future restrictions and suppression. Congress says it’s trying to protect the rights of copyright owners, but the “cure” that SOPA and PIPA represent is much more destructive than the disease they are trying to fix.

If you’d like to learn even more about SOPA/PIPA, click here.”

Interested in finding out more about who is/was involved in the protest?  Click to this  article, Smokee.com was also listed.