In an attempt to protect copyrighted material, the U.S. Congress has been mulling a proposal to curb access to websites, search engine results and domain names, among other things, something that has seemingly outraged many in the digital community.

The bill, entitled the Stop Online Piracy Act [H.R. 3261], has so infuriated Wikipedia that it blacked out its site today. Google has also promoted the bill’s destruction, with its clever logo on its homepage blacked out for the remainder of the day and linked to a petition and fact sheet.

“The U.S. government could order the blocking of sites using methods similar to those employed by China,” writes the search engine on one of its pages. “Among other things, search engines could be forced to delete entire websites from their search results.”

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