These sites have "blacked out" today in protest of Stop online privacy act (SOPA). It makes it just a little bit easier to imagine what the web could look like if some of the measures from the proposed SOPA bill were to become law.
Those of you who came to Towleroad's site today saw the above interstitial appear before you reached our actual site. While many sites like Wikipedia and Reddit are going dark for eight hours today, we have instead chosen
SOPA = Stop Online Piracy Act sounds benign, as almost all legislation does. The names of most bills are completely antithetical to what the bill would actually do. SOPA is no exception. You read the name. “Piracy is bad,”
By Timothy B. Lee | Published January 17, 2012 3:00 PM Google will join Wednesday's protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act, linking to anti-SOPA information on the firm's US home page. "Like many businesses, entrepreneurs and web users,
The English version of the site has blacked itself out in protest over the SOPA bill in the US House of Representatives and the analogous PIPA bill in the Senate. Like a lot of legislation, it's impossible to tell at this point what actual impact the
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