There's no reason to argue if you're speaking out of ignorance (which, by the way, I'm not accusing you of), so I won't bother typing out a big response quite yet. If you're interested, the EFF has a pretty good writeup about the problems with these bills.

I will address your "alarmist hyperbole" comment, though. SOPA/PIPA give the government power to block websites at the DNS level. If RAFO were to be blocked, it would be impossible to access via "readandfindout.com." You could access it via the IP address, but how many people here know how to do that? As to whether the government would take down RAFO, probably not. However, if you've followed the domain name seizures that have already been occurring, you'd know that the government has a positively abysmal accuracy rate. For example, check this link. Basically, the government wrongly seized a DNS provider's page, which brought down some 84,000 of that site's customers. If RAFO's registrar were seized, the same thing would happen to us. Oh, and interestingly, our registrar is one of the sites participating in the blackout, for what that's worth.

One more thing. The centralized DNS censorship proposed by these bills is incompatible with DNSSec -- a next generation DNS security protocol that we badly need. You literally cannot have both DNSSec, and SOPA/PIPA, at the same time.

In short, passing these bills WOULD directly alter the infrastructure of the internet, and would do so in a way that would make it easy to take RAFO down. Of course, there are a whole host of other reasons to dislike the bill, but I'm trying not to get into it any more than is necessary to address your "alarmist hyperbole" comment.