Selected images from Emergency NYTM Meetup to Protest SOPA and PIPA, January 18, 2012. More here.

“It’s No Longer OK to NOT know how the Internet works.” New York, NY, Jan 18, 2012

Silenced by SOPA, New York, NY, Jan 18, 2012

“Don’t Break the Internet”, New York, NY, Jan 18, 2012

Also: Preserved for posterity, screenshots of websites protesting SOPA and PIPA by blacking themselves out.

And: An amazing, tone-deaf response to the SOPA and PIPA protests by the MPAA. Despite what happens to SOPA and PIPA, the root causes of these bills, these frictions, and these complete misunderstandings between the old and the new aren’t going away.