- 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)
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Wikipedia blackout
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