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On November 16, 2011, SOPA was discussed by the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary. Tumblr, Mozilla, Techdirt, and the Center for Democracy and Technology were among many Internet companies who protested by participating in 'American Censorship Day', by displaying black banners over their site logos with the words "STOP CENSORSHIP."
SOPA's sponsor in the House, Chairman Smith, called Wikipedia's blackout a "publicity stunt" saying: "It is ironic that a website dedicated to providing information is spreading misinformation about the Stop Online Piracy Act." Smith went on to insist that SOPA "will not harm Wikipedia, domestic blogs or social networking sites". [188]
The English-language Wikipedia page on January 18, 2012, illustrating its international blackout in opposition to SOPA. On January 18, 2012, by consensus of editors, the English Wikipedia was blacked out for one day to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill in the United States House of Representatives.
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 ...
The House and the Senate are working up anti-piracy bills, respectively code-named SOPA and PIPA. If passed in their original forms, these measures would fundamentally change the structure of the ...
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. [6] A quick search of SOPA blackout on Google News yielded 9,500 links as of 13:30 Pacific standard time, January 19. [7] Spanish Wikipedia with a banner supporting English Wikipedia's SOPA ...
The blackout is in protest against proposed legislation in the United States – the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and PROTECTIP (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate. The press release stated that, "If passed, this legislation will harm the free and open Internet and bring about new tools for censorship of ...
Original – A print screen of the English-language Wikipedia page on 18 January 2012, illustrating its worldwide blackout in opposition to U.S. legislation such as SOPA and PIPA. Alt Taken on a high-res screen.