Google wikipedia craigslist black out to protest sopa bill

Posted on Jan 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Web on strike !! Big web companies and groups like Google, WordPress, Wikipedia, Reddit, Mozilla are participating to blacken out their websites against passing the bills SOPA(Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA(Protect IP Act) in U.S.

Google is working while they only have blackened the logo and posted a message on their home page saying “Tell Congress please don’t censor the web”. This is not only visible to users from North America but outside also.

A new website (sopastrike.com) has been put in action for all other websites to join and blacken their website starting from 8 am EST to 8 pm EST on 18th Jan 2012. Lots of websites are registering and blacking out their homepage. For example Wikimedia Foundation declared that the Wikipedia community started to black out their English version to worldwide to protest against SOPA and PIPA. Though not all websites are joining like Twitter or Facebook. To see more information check sopastrike.com

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