What Is SOPA Anyway? A Guide to Understanding the Online Piracy Bill
Wall Street
On Wednesday, Jan. 18, you will have to live without Wikipedia. That's right, the English version of the popular online encyclopedia is going dark for a day. By Kukil Bora: Subscribe to Kukil's RSS feed As an act of protest against a pair of legislations – the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT [...]
Read MoreCensored Chinese artist's photos coming to NYC
San Francisc
censored. 13 views 0 comments 0 favorites 0 galleries. This photo belongs to. dianabog 's photostream (4787). Newest photo →; censored · bogards eyes · seeds. License. All Rights Reserved · Request to license dianabog 's photos via Today, we are striking against censorship. Join the largest online protest in history: tell Congress to stop [...]
Read MoreStop SOPA In Seattle: Microsoft, Amazon, Geekwire, and A Rally
Seattle Post
Hockey Wilderness joins the protest. We ask you to get informed. What is this all about: Help Stop SOPA/PIPA Turn off your website on January 18th for 12 hours. Simple and fast solution for turn the website off; use the Plugin WP Maintenance Mode, original for the activation of the and crafted the cachy, “STOP [...]
Read MoreSOPA, PIPA: What you need to know
CBS News
Starting at 8:00 am Eastern tomorrow, Mozilla will join with other sites in a virtual strike to protest the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). These bills protect content at all costs, creating the opportunity for A number of websites are (or were) planning to “go black” this week while the [...]
Read MoreStop SOPA And Piracy
InformationW
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,” Stop SOPA. January 18th, 2012 is the largest online protest in history, to stop the internet [...]
Read MoreStop SOPA And Piracy
InformationW
Hockey Wilderness joins the protest. We ask you to get informed. Stop SOPA. Major blackout of sites including wikipedia. Go internet! 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 [...]
Read MoreWikipedia anti-SOPA blackout underway
SlashGear
It's been a whirlwind few days as I've been doing my best to beat my internet drums to get people to pay attention to internet censorship law SOPA, and how it will affect everyone, and so has the rest of the web. This week Reddit announced a blackout Josh Wolford's comprehensive rundown of the SOPA/PIPA [...]
Read MoreWhere's my Wikipedia? SOPA, PIPA blackout coming
Los Angeles
In the past few days the plugin repository has been flooded with new plugins for helping WordPress-powered sites protest the SOPA/PIPA bills. SOPA – the Stop Online Piracy Act – and a sister bill, PIPA – the Protect IP Act – seek to minimize the dissemination of copyrighted material online by targeting sites that promote [...]
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