BREAKING: INTERNET BIGS MULL 'BLACKOUTS' TO BLOCK SOPA CENSORSHIP**UPDATE**- January 18 is the date**

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Wikipedia to go dark!!!!

Wikipedia will black out its Web site on Wednesday to protest SOPA, a version of anti-piracy legislation that’s being considered by Congress.

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales made the announcement on Twitter on Monday, saying the site would shut down English versions of the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia at midnight Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday until midnight on Wednesday.

[link to www.washingtonpost.com]

Last Edited by Sleeping Giant on 01/16/2012 06:14 PM

Wikipedia is not alone in its plans for a blackout. Reddit and the Cheezburger network that includes sites like The Daily What and Fail Blog also plan to shut down to protest SOPA. The document service Scribd already made a billion pages vanish. Craigslist boasts a notice on their frontpage saying “Stop SOPA and PIPA. [The bills] are
threatening Craigslist and
the rest of your
Internet. Most of
the web sites you use
strongly oppose these
bills.”


[link to www.washingtonpost.com]

Last Edited by Sleeping Giant on 01/16/2012 06:15 PM