A message about how Captain Jean-Luc Picard feels about SOPA and PIPA - idea and edit by me, everything else by Paramount.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkXtf_FZKbA

"You know, there are some words I've known since I was a schoolboy: ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we're all damaged."

From Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Drumhead".


The video has, as of posting, over 24,000 views on YouTube, posts on several blogs, numerous tweets on Twitter and over 400 shares from one of several Facebook posts alone (with nearly 1000 likes from it) plus many posts on Google+!