Watch this video explaining the gist of this bill. This man does a very good job of explaining in simple to understand terms why exactly it's bad and what you can--and definitely should--do to fight it.
EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT A US CITIZEN, this still effects you. Watch the video, visit the linked sites. This is important to gaming as much as it is anything else, and likely more so.
And before anyone starts in with that "I'm just one person" junk, remember that you're only just one person as long as you choose to be. Stand up and you'll find out how many other 'just one person' people are there with you.

The guy lost me when he started ranting about 50 to 70 year olds not knowing how to use a keyboard. LOL I helped beta test Mosaic in the early '90s
So I turned him off. The internet ignorance is not an age based one as much as a lack of needed skill sets one has to have to be a politician. Remember the Citizens United rulings states that corporations = people and money = free speech. Therefore large corporations razed the last barricade in the way to totally dominating the political process in the US. I understand Google has a lot of interest in this matter and has recently donated large sums to GOP . It will be corporation against corporation in this fight using politicians as proxy's . I believe I put up a video of a Republican Texan judge beating his daughter for using the internet a while back. That gives you an idea of what you are dealing with. For the record I'm betting on Google

What's Mosiac? Your link doesn't work. Not something that should happen to one so computer savvy as you...

Seriously though, even if you don't agree with his points, this bill is still a problem and needs to be fought.

Internet ignorance certainly isn't purely age based. But I believe that a majority of older people are less likely to be computer savvy. The gap is there. Especially having personally had my not unintelligent grandmother describe what a search engine does as "like magic" "How does it know what you want?" She's was around 70 at the time, I believe. Grant you, she isn't a politician.
Computers were invented in her lifetime, but not being wealthy enough to have experience with them herself at an earlier age, she just doesn't understand them. Whereas people of my generation and younger literally grew up alongside the industry. By second grade we had a computer in the school classroom, and this was in a very small town school.
And you're right. People in positions of power should know better, or at least know enough to listen to those who do. But they apparently don't. Something mentioned in the video.
Or, as you say, they might well know but aren't "allowed to" go against the wished of those who've got them bought and paid for.
As I've said a couple of times today (including in the letter to my Congressional Reps) I'm acquainted with the Citizens United ruling, and in no way agree with the idea of Corporate Personhood, or that spending money is an expression of freedom of speech. After all, if money is equivalent to speech, then no money is equivalent to no speech. "If a corporation can lobby for its interests with untold amounts of "speech" then what chance do the American people have should their interests be counter to those?" It's one of the core problems in this country, and most certainly needs to be corrected. It's part of the disease, and this bill (and the inevitable others like it, should this one be defeated) is just a symptom. But nonetheless, one that must be treated.

Now, do I really think writing my congressman is going to stop this? No. I'm not naive. But it's a start. I'm doing something, which is more than too many can say. Maybe if we would all do something, well, it might just pile up. Maybe even begin to resemble a democracy again.

I read the wiki on it. ON paper, the bill makes sense tbh. But things that look good on paper usually dont go the way they should. Its obvious those who brought this forward have little knowledge on what the ramifications "could" be, but that said....neither do I. I do have enough sense about me to know that with a few re writes or amendments this wouldnt be the big scary thing people are making it. Its the general, broad nature of the bill that makes it dangerous.
I didnt watch the vid because, well, it about a half hour long.

This is a write your congressman thing if it something that worries you.

I called my Congressman and he said, quote: "I'd like to help you son, but you're too young to vote."

Sorry, couldn't resist; it was too good an opportunity.

But its winter.

All the more reason to have dem blues.

DP: Whitehouse petition to veto the bill here: http://wh.gov/DfY

Well there ya go. Still a few thousand off the mark but still. You got to love checks and balances. If anything, you might be able to buy out one of the three branches, but very few have the resources to buy all. For me though, this is just another instance of people "playing"politics instead of acting it. This country would be much better off if people actually tried to better the place.

That reminds me, I still need to fill in that application to run for the county elections in 2013.