Google has joined Wikipedia, BoingBoing and a number of other popular websites in the SOPA protest – not just by ‘blacking out’ their logo, which is cute but largely ineffective, but by putting together a comprehensive and informative infographic on the SOPA bill and piracy, along with access lines for voters to contact members of Congress through.

It’s a neat middle line that doesn’t quite reach the whining indignation of the Wikipedia blackout, but is still far more active than say, Twitter – whose CEO, Dick Costello, criticized Wikipedia pretty heavily:

“that’s just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.”

Google has also set up an online petition over here:

Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet and slow economic growth in the U.S.
Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American business. Millions of Internet users and entrepreneurs already oppose SOPA and PIPA.
The Senate will begin voting on January 24th. Please let them know how you feel. Sign this petition urging Congress to vote NO on PIPA and SOPA before it is too late.

Take a look at their infographic over here – it’s informative and effective in a way that doesn’t negate Google’s claims to neutrality, but still articulately argues against what’s wrong with SOPA and PIPA.

So, you know. Nice job, Google.

[Source: Google/TakeAction]