Its gonna be a quiet day online today as companies join hands and turn off their websites in an anti-SOPA protest move that is designed to show surfers just how harmful the American proposed actions will be on the internet.
Visiting Wikipedia gets you this message:
Other high profile sites like WordPress, Mozilla, Tucows and Flickr have similar blackout messages on their sites. Even Google has added a simple yet effective one liner on their search page saying "Tell Congress: Please don't censor the web!"Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge
For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia.
Hopefully all this action will get people involved and will stop SOPA before internet censorship becomes a reality. I encourage you to visit a few of these sites and take actions like call Congress, tweet like crazy (#SOPASTRIKE), and help the strike appear everywhere!
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