Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Wikipedia plans blackout to protest antipiracy bill in Congress Blackout go offline legislation Hackers Join Fight Against SOPA In on Wednesday Twitter CEO says silly Bits Blog Go Dark Protest Bills Web Piracy Quote of the Day Twitter's Calls 'Foolish' 24hour act Jimmy Wales Favor Of Community Must Decide Obama Says So Long Killing Controversial Internet Legislation join protesting Reddit and others for antiSOPA confirms site Planning PIPA

Wikipedia founder defends blackout Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, has defended the decision to blackout the website around the world tomorrow, despite other American technology companies refusing to follow suit. Wikipedia founder defends blackout *new! JIMMY WALES, the co-founder of Wikipedia defended the decision to voluntarily blackout the world's largest online encyclopaedia for [...] Wikipedia to blackout all 3,847,673 English-language pages to protest PIPA Wikipedia is going black on Wednesday, January 18, to help fight the contentious Protect IP Act (PIPA), which is set to go for a vote before the Senate on January 24. The move, first reported by Neal Mann, digital news editor at Sky News, was confirmed by Jimmy Wales, co-founder of the far-reaching online encyclopedia, on Twitter. Wales says the blackout was a "community decision." Wikipedia to Blackout against Blacklist Bills Bangalore: In a bid to protest against the Stop Online Piracy act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), Wikipedia announced on its site that it would be staging a blackout of information on its English site for 24 hours, starting 05:00 GMT on Wednesday, January 18. Wikipedia blackout: Wikipedia joins SOPA Strike, English version to have one-day offline on January 18 Website Wikipedia.org announced on Monday, January 16, 2012, that it will join the so-called SOPA Strike, in which the English version will have a one-day Wikipedia blackout on Wednesday, January 18, 2012. Wikipedia official logo Image Credit: Wikipedia.org According to a press release by Wikipedia that day, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said that the online [...] Wikipedia Will Blackout for 24 Hours to Protest U.S. Piracy Law Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia where users contribute and edit entries, will shut the English version of its website for 24 hours tomorrow to protest proposed U.S. anti-piracy legislation. Wikipedia to join Reddit blackout to protest SOPA, PIPA Wikipedia announced Monday its intention to participate in a voluntary one day blackout of its services in protest of "anti-piracy" legislation that opponents claim would "break the Internet." Wikipedia in anti-Sopa 'blackout' The online encyclopedia joins other websites planning to go offline for 24 hours in protest against plans for new US anti-piracy laws. Wikipedia Blackout In Anti-Piracy Law Protest Wikipedia will black out its English-language site for 24 hours in protest at proposed US anti-piracy legislation. Wikipedia calls for web blackout The founder of Wikipedia is leading calls for search engines and social media sites including Google, Facebook and Twitter to take themselves offline for an entire day in protest against a controversial bill winding its way through...
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References:
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2012/jan/17/wikipedia-plans-blackout-protest-anti-piracy-bill--ar-1617157/
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/time/thepage/~3/eq_Kq0UKwv8/
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/iqDz-1pngVs/twitter-ceo-says-sopa-blackout.html
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=27eea5731e2408c5368a2c8439387812
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thr/news/~3/PIqjdR6NV3A/wikipedia-blackout-sopa-pipa-jimmy-wales-martin-luther-king-jr-282464
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