January 17, 2012   321 notes
newsweek: motherjones: This is one of the draft blackout screens for Wikipedia’s planned outage tomorrow in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its Senate twin, the Protect IP Act (PIPA) … Siddhartha Mahanta and Nick Baumann explain how Reddit, Wikipedia, and BoingBoing took on one of Washington’s most powerful lobbies—and won.   “This is going to be wow,” Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Twitter Monday. “I hope Wikipedia will melt phone systems in Washington.” Wikipedia, the sixth most visited site in the world, will go black from midnight EST tonight until midnight Wednesday. Not yet! SOPA & PIPA aren’t dead!

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motherjones:

This is one of the draft blackout screens for Wikipedia’s planned outage tomorrow in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its Senate twin, the Protect IP Act (PIPA) … Siddhartha Mahanta and Nick Baumann explain how Reddit, Wikipedia, and BoingBoing took on one of Washington’s most powerful lobbies—and won.  

“This is going to be wow,” Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Twitter Monday. “I hope Wikipedia will melt phone systems in Washington.” Wikipedia, the sixth most visited site in the world, will go black from midnight EST tonight until midnight Wednesday.

Not yet! SOPA & PIPA aren’t dead!

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