Wikipedia to Go Dark Tomorrow in SOPA Protest

By Jeralyn, Section Legislation
Posted on Tue Jan 17, 2012 at 12:19:14 PM EST
Tags: SOPA (all tags)

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Wikipedia will go dark tomorrow on the day of protest against SOPA.

Google will place a protest link on its home page.

“We oppose these bills because there are smart, targeted ways to shut down foreign rogue websites without asking American companies to censor the Internet,” Samantha Smith, a Google spokeswoman, said in an e-mail today.

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The Stop Online Piracy Act in the House and the Protect IP Act in the Senate are backed by the movie and music industries as a means to crack down on the sale of counterfeit goods by non-U.S. websites. Hollywood studios want lawmakers to ensure that Internet companies such as Google share responsibility for curbing the distribution of pirated material.

Twitter, which also opposes the bill, will not shut down.

Instructions for how to black out your site are here. More here. Mozilla and Wordpress are joining the day of blackout.

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according to this piece (5.00 / 1) (#2)
by desmoinesdem on Tue Jan 17, 2012 at 12:40:53 PM EST

by Siddhartha Mahanta and Nick Baumann, the tide may have turned against this legislation.

Mozilla going black too? (none / 0) (#1)
by Militarytracy on Tue Jan 17, 2012 at 12:34:20 PM EST

So if I use their browser will that be shutdown?

: Serious question?? (none / 0) (#3)
by BTAL on Tue Jan 17, 2012 at 12:52:34 PM EST

If so, no it won't effect your browser.

Makes you wonder... (none / 0) (#4)
by Lora on Wed Jan 18, 2012 at 11:30:45 AM EST

...there are smart, targeted ways to shut down foreign rogue websites without asking American companies to censor the Internet...

...if maybe the agenda is to censor the Internet.