But the real architects of the bills’ defeat don’t have a catchy label or a recognized lobbying group. They don’t have the glamour or the deep pockets of the studios. Yet they are the largest, most powerful and most important voice in the debate — and, until recently, they’ve been all but invisible to Congress.

They are you.

Kat Walsh of the Wikimedia Foundation, who will be speaking at our SOPA panel on Thursday 3/15, on the recent defeat of SOPA.  I recommend that you click through and read her op-ed in the Washington Post.  She explores the idea that I communicated in my previous posts: Wikipedia does not have to answer to content creators, so the site can take a more concrete leadership position in protesting SOPA and PIPA-esque legislation.

–Matt Parmett