January 18, 2012 12:57 AM UTC

Colorado Pols Joins SOPA Protest Blackout

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• by: Colorado Pols

After much deliberation, the management of Colorado Pols has chosen to black out our website, starting at midnight tonight, for the entire day on Wednesday. Colorado Pols will go offline as a protest against proposed federal legislation: the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate.

It is the majority opinion of the Colorado Pols community that this legislation, if passed, would directly threaten the free and open internet that allowed our blog to grow into the largest forum for discussion of local politics in the state of Colorado. We do not as general policy engage in direct advocacy for or against legislation, but the potential consequences of SOPA/PIPA for the very existence of public forums like our own obligates an extraordinary response. We hope to be joined in this action tomorrow by blogs and websites from across the political spectrum.

Colorado Pols will be back in operation at 12:01AM Thursday morning.