Somewhere in China today, in Russia today, and in many other countries that do not respect American intellectual property, criminals who do nothing but peddle in counterfeit products and stolen American content are smugly watching how the United States Senate decided it was not even worth debating how to stop the overseas criminals from draining our economy.

As Clay Shirky pointed out on twitter, people in China also saw Americans stand up against state censorship of the Internet.

Patrick Leahy - On the message of yesterday's protests