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JANUARY 18: Web Goes on Strike!

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Boing Boing will go dark on Jan 18 to fight SOPA

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On January 18, Boing Boing will join Reddit and other sites around the Internet in "going dark" to oppose SOPA and PIPA, the pending US legislation that creates a punishing Internet censorship regime and exports it to the rest of the world. Boing Boing could never co-exist with a SOPA world: we could not ever link to another website unless we were sure that no links to anything that infringes copyright appeared on that site. So in order to link to a URL on LiveJournal or WordPress or Twitter or Blogspot, we'd have to first confirm that no one had ever made an infringing link, anywhere on that site. Making one link would require checking millions (even tens of millions) of pages, just to be sure that we weren't in some way impinging on the ability of five Hollywood studios, four multinational record labels, and six global publishers to maximize their profits.
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Source: BoingBoing
 
immu said:
i would like to see YouTube as well in this list!!

-Google
-Twitter
-Facebook
-YouTube
-Wikipidea
-Yahoo


i really wana see how world reacts with out Google!
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Google owns youtube so I am sure both would be censored.

vorazeal said:
well, c'mon if that bill was in some other country like India, no one would had eva cared about it except Indians, and now its happening in US, and people behave like they are putting restriction of whole internet across the world.

Its not like if SOPA gets approved, it would be approved in other countries too.
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Your precious american downloaders would all be gone and your money from warez would dissapear and you would be dirt poor all over again. Domino effect, learn about it.
 
Wikipedia to blackout in protest of anti-piracy bills

Wikipedia to blackout in protest of anti-piracy bills

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The world’s largest encyclopedia will go dark on Wednesday in a dramatic protest against two anti-piracy bills being considered by the U.S. Congress, Wikipedia announced on Monday.
Concerned that the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its sister in the Senate, the Protect IP Act, might deal severe damage to the Internet’s core architecture and make user-generated sites essentially illegal, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced that the blackout would begin as soon as the clock strikes midnight on Tuesday night.
Wales is following social media forum Reddit.com, which plans to go offline at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, and stay shut down until 8 p.m. Reddit’s plans are hardly unique =– dozens of other companies are rumored to be considering a similar move, including Google — but they are the first to confirm that their service will go offline for a day.
Instead of their usual hodgepodge of user-submitted content, the site’s front page will be dedicated to a message about how bills before Congress threaten basic Internet freedoms, and a not-so-subtle suggestion that users contact their representatives.
Wednesday was also supposed to be the day that tech elites had their say in Congress, during a now-canceled hearing that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) scrapped at the last moment, once SOPA sponsor Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) said he would withdraw a controversial segment of the bill’s text.
Thanks to the uproar from Silicon Valley and online activists, both President Barack Obama and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) ultimately expressed a need for caution and consensus with such wide-ranging legislation, and the bill is not expected to come up in the House for a full vote any time soon.
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Source: RawStory
 
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People pissed because of SOPA disabling freedom of sharing.

People solve this problem by shutting down several popular websites.

Can't see how this won't backfire.
 
NameCheap has something up for the strike!

NameCheap is up to something tomorrow! =)

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BREAKING NEWS:
Google Plans Home Page Protest Against U.S. Piracy Measures
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Google Inc. will place a link on its home page tomorrow highlighting its opposition to anti-piracy measures in U.S. Congress, joining a demonstration by other Internet companies against the Hollywood-backed legislation. Google, owner of the world’s most popular search engine, and Facebook Inc. are among companies opposing House and Senate bills they say they will hurt the growth of the U.S. technology industry. Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia where users contribute entries, said it will shut the English version of its website for 24 hours tomorrow to protest the measures.
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Source: BusinessWeek
 
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YEAH Facebook is also going down today.. ...Great.

Source:- Watched the live Breaking News

All three major sites Google,Facebook and Wiki are now against SOPA...

Twitter may go down today.. Not Confirmed Yet!!
 
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