Personal branding has taken off in the past few years because we have an opportunity like never before to be our own publisher. Through social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+ (and the list goes on) to our websites and blogs, we are able to distribute information that helps seal our credibility, show our personalities, and share our opinions. Entrepreneurs have been able to start-up companies solely on promoting themselves through the Internet. Let alone the millions of people employed by companies that are based on the Internet.

Internet Censorship Can Kill Your Business

On January 24th, the Internet as we know may change beyond recognition. That is when the Senate is set to vote on PIPA (Protect Internet IP Act). Do not be disillusioned by its name, the bill is scary – and so is its sister  SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act). WordPress, Google, Mozilla, and many other companies are against these bills. WordPress has even placed an urgent plea in the dashboard section of all their blogs to Help Stop SOPA/PIPA.

This four-minute video explains how these Internet Censorship Bills will affect you.

“It contains provisions that will chill innovation. It contains provisions that will tinker with the fundamental fabric of the internet. It gives private corporations the power to censor. And best of all, it bypasses due legal process to do much of it.”- James Allworth (Harvard Business School)

Check out what other experts have to say by clicking here.

 It is not too late to be heard.

For more information and simple ways you can protest the Internet censorship bills SOPA/PIPA and easily contact the Senate and Congress to, visit StopAmericanCensorship.org.