The excerpt below is from a comment on the Bad Astronomy blog. And if it’s true, then it’s terrifying. Because it shows that the powers that be will use any means necessary to undermine our freedoms to further the special interest groups, even using issues in which everyone is unified to covertly pass laws that destroy America: 

I’m afraid this is just the beginning. Sooner or later the proponents of SOPA will come back with a “Think of the children!” type of bill like PCIPA that will be the same thing in a different wrapper and they’ll find some way to sell it because children and pornography in the same bill are a hot potato, no matter how it’s phrased.

Let me quote from a reddit comment that is currently blacked out:

“Lamar Smith has a royal flush and few people know it.

SOPA may pass. It may not. He doesn’t care, and it doesn’t matter. The MPAA and RIAA started working on their legislative strategy to pass a new anti-piracy bill in late 2010. SOPA was designed to raise the noise. Everyone is playing right into the entertainment industries hand. The lobbyists are laughing manically at the ignorance of the mob. Even Wikipedia and reddit have played into it.

What people don’t know about is the ace: H.R.1981, the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011 which is lying in wait. It’s not complete. You see, PCIP is not contestable because it’s about protecting children. They can, and very well might, copy and paste the full text of SOPA to the end of PCIP. That’s the backup. That’s the deal that was struck with entertainment industry lobbyists. We will try to push this anti-piracy bill. It probably won’t work. Don’t worry, we can pass it under an anti-child pornography bill.

There are two things which no Congressman will risk supporting: terrorism and child pornography. There can be no opposition, no discussion. Any anti-piracy law can ALWAYS be reframed as an anti-child pornography bill and it will pass, without even discussion. It will have the full support of the House (minus Ron Paul), the full support of the Senate, and most importantly the full support of the American people. NO ONE wants to risk being called a pedophile.”