Wikipedia planned to do anti-SOPA blackout

Posted by on January 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

I’ve heard the news for couple weeks, but only this morning I read official announcement from Wikimedia foundations about their Wikipedia blackout plan. It’s quite an unfortunate decision, but I agree that Wikipedia must make clear of their stance and hold their grounds against the absurdities SOPA and PIPA now (and would) bring.

I heard other Internet giants (Google, Facebook, etc) will launch their own anti-SOPA campaign. I hope their campaign will be a victorious one.

edit:
An incomplete list of sites joining up the blakout campaign http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/its-not-just-wikipedia/251555/.

XKCD: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sopa.png

Blackout compilation http://pinterest.com/sollitaire/sopa/

Minutely report of the campaign on The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/18/sopa-blackout-day-of-action-live

(Almost) Full list of blackout participants http://sopastrike.com/on-strike/

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