On the 23rd of January, Wikipedia, Reddit and other major websites made the unprecedented move of blacking out their entire sites. The motive was protesting against SOPA - Stop Online Piracy Act - and PIPA - Protect IP Act - which are US House and Senate bills respectively that wants to give content holders far-reaching new powers to block websites in the name of copyright protection.

In response to SOPA, Twibbon users launched their own protest.

As the movement began to gather momentum, over 74 Twibbon campaigns were created to support this:

In total so far over 100,000 people have added an anti-SOPA or PIPA Twibbon – the most popular being this campaign with over 67,000 supporters! 

Twibboners were vocal in their support:

CoverJunction (along with Twibbon another great Storm Idea) also had users flocking to add Stop SOPA Covers to their Facebook Profile. Almost 3,000 added the cover below - 

In spite of an extensive lobbying campaign from major media corporations, the bill has been shelved for now, demonstrating the amazing power that the internet gives to grassroots campaigning, and people unifying behind one cause.