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SOPA and PIPA protests were overlapped and followed by protests against the ACTA treaty, which would have been similar in its effects. The ACTA treaty was signed by 22 European Union Member States in Europe, and was expected to be signed before March 2012 by the remaining states: Cyprus, Estonia, Netherlands and Slovakia.
The move to protest against SOPA and PIPA was initiated when Fight for the Future organized [3] [4] thousands of the most popular websites in the world, including Reddit, Craigslist, and the English Wikipedia, to consider temporarily closing their content and redirecting users to a message opposing the proposed legislation.
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As far as Friday's go, January 20 is certainly the best one in 2012 so far, and likely for some time. (You know, unless it starts raining Skittles next Friday or something.) Internet companies ...
Sites such as Wikipedia, reddit and Boing Boing have gone dark today in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act, and Google has also joined in by linking to anti-SOPA info and a petition from its US ...
Anti-SOPA and PIPA topics began trending globally on Twitter immediately after the blackout began. Hashtags included #factswithoutwikipedia , #SOPAstrike , and #wikipediablackout . At one point, 1% of all tweets carried the #wikipediablackout tag, [ 5 ] and the term SOPA was used in a quarter-million tweets hourly during the blackout.
English-language Wikipedia sites joined other Internet sites in protesting the PIPA and SOPA legislation by staging a "blackout" of service for 24 hours on January 18, 2012. Many websites protested, including: Wikipedia, CNet and Cheezburger network sites. Some websites denied access to their websites altogether. [44]
SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act snaking its way through Congress, stands to transform the Internet in the worst way. Zynga joined a number of traditional game companies like Epic Games, Red 5 ...