Wikipedia will black out its Web site on Wednesday to protest SOPA, a version of anti-piracy legislation that's being considered by Congress. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales made the announcement on Twitter on Monday,
Wikipedia has issued an official statement confirming a planned blackout on January 18. Scroll down for update.
And don't think you can spend the workday looking at #snowmageddon pictures on Reddit or nitpicking errors on Wikipedia forums. Those sites along with dozens of others are participating in an Internet blackout Wednesday to protest the Stop Online
scheduled a blackout on Jan 18th and urged others to do so as well. Other websites that came on board were Tucows, the Cheezburger network and there was even talk about a Wikipedia blackout (no official confirmation). Neither Google nor Facebook showed
While there have been some previous discussions about whether or not Wikipedia would black out its site to protest SOPA/PIPA — and the community's consensus was to do so — it appeared that they had agreed that the trigger for a black out would be on
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