As a newbie I considered posting a "question" regarding this until I figured out the right part of the site to go.

For those not familiar with xkcd I thought I would post this:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sopa.png

(If you edit the colours it ends up looking a bit more like this):

https://i.sstatic.net/hUaw5.png

Edit: I tried to embed the pictures via bbcode or whatever this forum uses but it turned out to be way too past beer o clock :(

Edit (after even more beer): Apparently over 75k websites participated:
http://sopastrike.com/on-strike/