Wikimedia foundation to blackout in protest of SOPA and PIPA!

[networkguy]

In less than 2 hours of writing the English Wikipedia will be blacked out globally to protest SOPA and PIPA.

Quote:

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.

Further reading:

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout


The question is though will this protest have an impact on the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate?


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[johname]

Found in an article:

Wikipedia, run by a nonprofit organization, is going further than most sites by actually taking material offline — no doubt causing panic among countless students who have a paper due.

 

[Archangel]

From their site:

Imagine a World
Without Free Knowledge

For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia. Learn more.

Contact your representatives.
Your zip code:

You'd think they'd better utilize their 24 hours, adding more informative text.

 

[dnp1234]

lol looks like Google is protesting it atm as well. Blacked out box over their logo.

 

[networkguy]

re: "Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge"

:lol: ..
not much of a protest~ (TURNS JAVA OFF!) :bingo:

 

[DU]

Ironically, students will have to find another source to copy their homework from.

(see that they addressed this in their comment - something wrong with that)

 

[johname]

Cached Plagiarism tomorrow lol

 

[DU]

Cached Plagiarism tomorrow lol

Most of the original content on Wikipedia is plagiarized - that's also something people forget (or like).

Next person who posts on NP that someone is "stealing their site".. I'm just going to talk about freedom of information, the internet and all that.

Sidenote: I need a new avatar.

 

[johname]

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[hopkism]

I'm a bit confused... Do you guys support SOPA and PIPA or just disagree with the protest methods?

 

[DU]

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[Archangel]

Most of us are against it

I'm a bit confused... Do you guys support SOPA and PIPA or just disagree with the protest methods?

 

[DU]

Most of us are against it

Most of us haven't read it and are just going with the flow.

 

[Veronika11]

*2 inmates in prison*
1: So what are you in for?
2: I killed my family with a machete. What about you?
1: I uploaded a video of me playing Skyward Sword.
2: GET AWAY FROM ME YOU MONSTER!!