Today January 18th 2012, at 0:00 EST, this website will be blacking out and directing people to contact Congress to kill the web censorship bill, SOPA and PIPA.

In just 7 days, the American Senate will vote on forever altering the free and open internet by instituting a new regime of extra-judicial, corporate-led website takedowns. This is a fundamental fight about who has power in society — the people with the means to communicate freely or the governments and corporations that feel threatened.

For the full state of play on the censorship bills, take a look here. The clock is ticking, and we’re still 35 senators short of the number needed to kill the bill.