English Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout

[win7holic]

Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia Foundation here). The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation in the United States – the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate – that, if passed, would seriously damage the free and open Internet, including Wikipedia.

This will be the first time the English Wikipedia has ever staged a public protest of this nature, and it’s a decision that wasn’t lightly made. Here’s how it’s been described by the three Wikipedia administrators who formally facilitated the community’s discussion. From the public statement, signed by User:NuclearWarfare, User:Risker and User:Billinghurst:

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[Littlebits]

Wikipedia is just one of the many sites joining the blackout.
There are large sites including all of Google, Mozilla, WordPress, reddit, Tucows, Namecheap, read the full list

Will MalwareTips join the blackout??

Thanks.

 

[MrXidus]

The strike has begun, many websites now are blacking out. To see the full list of participating websites. Visit http://sopastrike.com/

 

[jamescv7]

Just noticed when I'm searching something in Wikipedia and it was displayed yesterday about "less than 11 hours before the blackout".

Now when i'm trying to search again it will just display the Black Out page. :| Luckily we don't have any school related research that goes to Wikipedia.

 

[Linuxfever]

I'm fully behind Wikipedia, SOPA/PIPA is the first step in internet censorship!

 

[LaserWraith]

If you really need to access Wikipedia, disable Javascript or use the mobile version: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/

 

[LoftedAphid86]

Block this on Adblock Plus / NoScript / Opera Content Blocker if you want to view Wikipedia:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:BannerLoader&banner=blackout&campaign=English+Wikipedia+Blackout*

 

[Dejan]

Oh my god, they've blacked out their site for one day, that must change a whole lot.
The only thing this is doing is pissing me and other people the hell off, along with Imgur, who is also apparently blacking out their site in the US or something, don't know. Reddit is also protesting, which may increase the intelligence of people for a day, but that's beside the point. This is kind of like boycotting a site for one day or something, hurr durr, big change.

 

[MrXidus]

I detect mad.

Oh my god, they've blacked out their site for one day, that must change a whole lot.

With a site that receives 24 million visitors daily. Yes you think that would change alot.

Reddit is just a children's club and a dump /my_opinion, Not much will come from them blacking out but upset children who will most likely just wait till the protest is over and not even give one brain cell to the actual purpose to why it's blacked out.

But what got me interested is Google also joined in.

Doesn't take someone with the intelligence of a genius to know how many daily visitors Google gets. It will certainly grab peoples attention and support.

It's just one day, Sleep it off or go outside for once and see the sun. If this SOPA/PIPA passed it wouldn't just be one day. Think and act.