January 18 is Stop SOPA Day – Wikipedia Blackout
Wikipedia blackout will happen Wednesday, January 18, as a support for “Stop SOPA Day.”
“The Wikipedia community has authorized a blackout of the English version of Wikipedia for 24 hours on January 18th in protest of proposed legislation — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECTIP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate — that, if passed, will harm the free, secure, and open Internet. These bills endanger free speech both in the United States and abroad, setting a frightening precedent of Internet censorship for the world.”
If you are a website owner, will you join the internet blackout on Wednesday?
If you want to support, you can visit http://sopablackout.org/ to get JavaScript code and a WordPress plugin that you can use to stage a blackout protest on your own site.