Tumblr has created this nifty page to make it easy for you to protest the [both of the next two links are PDFs] PROTECT-IP act and the Stop Online Piracy act, both of which are in hearings today. If you fill out the form Tumblr provides, you'll "receive a call from Tumblr with talking points about this bill. We’ll then connect you to your House Representative so you can tell them what you think." These bills are bad news because they will give a disturbing amount of power to corporations. The New York Times ran a great editorial yesterday that reads, in part:

The bills would empower the attorney general to create a blacklist of sites to be blocked by Internet service providers, search engines, payment providers and advertising networks, all without a court hearing or a trial. The House version goes further, allowing private companies to sue service providers for even briefly and unknowingly hosting content that infringes on copyright — a sharp change from current law, which protects the service providers from civil liability if they remove the problematic content immediately upon notification. The intention is not the same as China’s Great Firewall, a nationwide system of Web censorship, but the practical effect could be similar.

Seriously: Visit Tumblr and get involved, please.