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in San Francisco just miles from the heart of Silicon Valley members of the tech community gathered to rally against two national bills the Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA and PIPA that protect intellectual property act information needs to be free we don't want this bill fixed we want it stopped we don't want censorship and this leads to a form of censorship just to be clear we're not fans of piracy at all but we are fans of just the freedom of information across the country in New York the scene was similar as protestors gathered outside the offices of Senator Schumer and Gillibrand to co-sponsors of pippa online thousands of internet companies were waging their own battles wikipedia suspended service google provided a direct link for people to take action and blogging to a wordpress made the censorship message clear there are tons of folks out there who probably weren't really aware of SOPA and PIPA before today they're finding out how scary these bills really are the messages also struck several lawmakers and now as a Wednesday afternoon two Republican senators said they would rescind their support I don't think the bills in their current form have any hope of passing at this point even President Obama has said he wouldn't sign either into law CBS Corporation the parent company of Cena and CBS News supports the legislation for the concern consumer there's already a boycott SOPA app for Android phones this free download scans barcodes and then will tell you if the product manufacturer is one who supports the bill and for those who really want to make their voices heard there's even an anti SOPA ringtone available for a free download in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News