*** Update on SOPA and PIPA *** http://ping.fm/iJRJ2 What’s Happening With the Web Censorship Bills?

In the face of massive Internet protest today, key senate and house backers of the SOPA and PIPA web censorship bills – including Senators Marco Rubio, Roy Blunt, John Cornyn, Orrin Hatch, John Boozman and Jim DeMint, and Representatives Ben Quayle and Lee Terry – have dropped their support. So have a number of other senators.

At least 17,000 websites allegedly joined in the protest.

Indeed, even several congresspeople joined in the protest.

Google says that 4.5 million people signed their anti-SOPA petition today.