[Chapter-delegates] English Wikipedia going dark tomorrow!

[Narelle Clark]

This looks like a strong protest!

Thoughts anyone?


To: English Wikipedia Readers and Community
From: Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director
Date: January 16, 2012
Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the
English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC
on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia
Foundation here). The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation
in the United States—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, would seriously damage the free and open Internet, including
Wikipedia.

This will be the first time the English Wikipedia has ever staged a public
protest of this nature, and it’s a decision that wasn’t lightly made.
etc at
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout


More info on SOPA:
Try our Harvard colleague (Jonathan Zittrain and BoT member) who is
actively working on this topic:
http://futureoftheinternet.org/sopa-compromise

and him on Colbert talking about it:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111202/09361816954/colbert-takes-sopa.shtml


Cheers

N



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Narelle Clark
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