Editor’s note: This arti­cle orig­i­nally appeared in Google Plus on 24 Novem­ber 2011.

The Inter­net Cen­sor­ship Bill took a mas­sive beat­ing last week (yeah, you did that!) but drug com­pa­nies, movie stu­dios and the Cham­ber of Com­merce do not go down easy.

Now – get this – they’re telling Con­gress it’s a “jobs” bill.

This is dan­ger­ous. Every­one in Con­gress is des­per­ate to do some­thing to cre­ate jobs. Now the most pow­er­ful lob­bies in Wash­ing­ton are bang­ing down their doors, say­ing “this is your (only) chance to pass a jobs bill.”

Since Con­gress is away for the hol­i­day, there’s one pri­or­ity: sign up as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble for a mas­sive call-in day when Con­gress returns.

Since the House’s “SOPA” has such a bad name (yes, you did that) lob­by­ists are mov­ing their weight behind the Sen­ate ver­sion, PIPA (“The PROTECT IP Act”). The Senate’s cen­sor­ship bill is just as bad; it’s only miss­ing a few of SOPA’s extra-crazy pro­vi­sions, like the ones that could send you to jail for singing a pop song on YouTube. The web­site block­ing pro­vi­sions are all there. Still, Sen­ate Major­ity Leader Harry Reid thinks that with the atten­tion on SOPA, he can sneak PIPA through quickly when Con­gress returns

Click here to join in, by com­mit­ting to call your Sen­a­tor > http://act.fightforthefuture.org/page/m/2e1f205e/1d171aa6/7157c138/f863d56/937986786/VEsH/

Reid needs to know this bill won’t move for­ward with­out a fight. That’s why we’re orga­niz­ing a call-in day for Tues­day, using the same tools that our heroes at Tum­blr used last week. It’s kind of per­fect. While Con­gress rests we’ve got 5 full days to sign up friends, col­leagues, Twit­ter fol­low­ers — every­body. Then on Tues­day we’ll unleash a storm of phone calls.

Click here to sign up, and then get oth­ers signed up too > http://act.fightforthefuture.org/page/m/2e1f205e/1d171aa6/7157c138/f863d57/937986786/VEsE/

This week­end, instead of nobly veg­ging out on the inter­net, you can fight for the future of the inter­net and free­dom of speech. Every ounce of time you spend counts.

Signups now, phone calls Tues­day. Start your engines.

P.S. Are you a Tum­blr user? We just put up a spe­cial sec­tion with extra-easy instruc­tions for Tum­blr users to add a “Stop Cen­sor­ship” but­ton to their site: http://americancensorship.org/#tumblr