Over at TIME.com, [I recap](http://techland.time.com/2012/01/09/at-the-top-of-congresss-new-year-agenda-regulate-the-net/) the latest on SOPA and PIPA and look at what’s ahead once Congress reconvenes. I also address the argument that the piracy bills don’t amount to censorship since they’re aimed at unprotected speech.
>Both bills would likely affect non-infringing speech because they allow for entire sites to be blocked — even if they also include otherwise legal speech. Yet the Supreme Court has ruled, “Broad prophylactic rules in the area of free expression are suspect. Precision of regulation must be the touchstone in an area so closely touching our most precious freedoms.” And you can add to that a troubling lack of due process that’s a recipe for abuse.
Read [the whole thing here](http://techland.time.com/2012/01/09/at-the-top-of-congresss-new-year-agenda-regulate-the-net/).
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