Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Wikipedia blackout

  • Wikipedia will black out the English language version of its website Wednesday to protest anti-piracy legislation under consideration in Congress, the foundation behind the popular community-based online encyclopedia said in a statement Monday night.
  • (Yahoo Finance)
  • In protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act, popular Web sites such as Reddit, Boing Boing, and Wikipedia will go dark Wednesday, displaying only a message about their opposition to the controversial bill (Read more about SOPA here). GASP.
  • (Washington Post)
  • Wikipedia will turn the lights out on its English-language website for 24 hours Wednesday in protest of two anti-piracy bills proposed in Congress. The planned Wikipedia blackout at midnight Jan.
  • (Orlando Sentinel)
  • Wikipedia shouldnt take sides. A site that has an entire page dedicated to its neutrality guidelines, shouldnt take such an apparent political stance on the issue.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • Wikipedia may black out its website Wednesday to protest anti-piracy legislation under consideration in Congress.
  • (Nashville Tennessean)
  • 6:10 p.m. | Updated Our friends at The Washington Post announced an ambitious plan to fill the void during the Great Wikipedia Blackout of 2012: a Twitter campaign to answer Internet users' questions, à la Wikipedia.
  • (New York Times Blogs)
  • Wikipedia is going ahead with plans to take down the entire English site in protest to the SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy bills. The English Wikipedia will be inaccessible for a full day on January 18th, not just for those in the US, but globally.
  • (Softpedia)
  • Wikipedia will black out its Web site Wednesday to protest SOPA, the of anti-piracy legislation that's being considered by Congress.
  • (Washington Post)

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