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finnacleJan 18, 2012
My vote of support to Wikepedia. The governments are increasingly trying to hide behind their failures and suppress free speech and we must stand upto it.
zeedeoJan 19, 2012
I think google could've learned from wikipedia....
Mr. Google! Tear down the doodle, and stop search for an hour
cgmpowersJan 18, 2012
PLEASE READ THIS, ITS VERY---VERY IMPORTANT. I urge every single person to READ this and SIGN it. The liberties we have in this country are a rare and unique thing & we cannot, I repeat, CANNOT allow the government to take over the Internet. This must NOT pass, or places like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and even your own websites may disappear....FOREVER!
saifulchowdurJan 18, 2012
Take action against #SOPA and #PIPA - Support the #Wikipediablackout on Jan 18 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more
lasvegasvipJan 18, 2012
Call your elected officials.
Tell them you are their constituent, and you oppose SOPA and PIPA.
Why?
SOPA and PIPA cripple the free and open internet. They put the onus on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the blocking of entire sites, even if the links are not to infringing material. Small sites will not have the sufficient resources to mount a legal challenge. Without opposition, large media companies may seek to cut off funding sources for small competing foreign sites, even if big media are wrong. Foreign sites will be blacklisted, which means they won't show up in major search engines.
In a post SOPA/PIPA world, Wikipedia --and many other useful informational sites-- cannot survive in a world where politicians regulate the Internet based on the influence of big money in Washington. It represents a framework for future restrictions and suppression. Congress says it's trying to protect the rights of copyright owners, but the "cure" that SOPA and PIPA represent is much more destructive than the disease they are trying to fix.
If you'd like to learn even more about SOPA/PIPA, click here.
barryrutherfordJan 18, 2012
Support Wikipedia Action today by digging the comments
WhenItMattersMostJan 18, 2012
WhatSOPA ya barryrutherford. Everythingsa going well?
denechekJan 18, 2012
The group Anonymous is all over this issue too... OUR HEROES~!
swissbibJan 18, 2012
Simply important!
sirejoeJan 18, 2012
EVERYONE should be supporting this initiative to STOP SOPA!
ichdienmeJan 18, 2012
Now if facebook blacked out its page in protest, and so did twitter, that would be something special....
william8199Jan 18, 2012
I cant believe the congress and U.S. Senate is doing this! I disagree! this is democracy.
niravpatel001Jan 18, 2012
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.
prochoiceJan 18, 2012
In Europe there was pressure, so the US government cannot be so much against it!
Spain and the counsel for the EU submitted, the Netherlands voted a bill down.
Perfect example how US "internal politics" do have effects on the whole planet.
The words "We, the people" are not European tradition, from now on will our governments learn them and if this movement sweeps or creeps onward to Asia - very good.
dissidentJan 18, 2012
right now forums need to go policing their site to make sure their users do not post full articles and violate the copyright of news stories.. these laws would do the same thing to copyrighted movies and music... basically censor the net and just give lawyers and the movie industry parasites extra money by suing sites that have nothing to do with piracy, just failed to censor the links.
content providing parasites need to find a new line of work if they can't handle the modern age...
LoyaltyFactorJan 18, 2012
Brilliant strategy by Wikipedia to help inform people.
unclefireJan 18, 2012
Job killing regulation! Arrrgh. Where is the gop outrage over this. They're all about freedom and free market but the come up with this s**t. Yeah I know democrats are in on it too.
ObserverWWJan 18, 2012
Today the SOPA and PIPA protest will reveal to the public which news media distorts news when it has a conflict of interest. Are your favorite news sources goodies or a badies? Today we will find out.
Please read the links of the websites protesting SOPA and PIPA today to see what they are actually protesting.
Please then read what the network news media says the protest is about.
If you learn one thing one the internet today it will be the extent to which most major media companies, including network TV news and 24 hour news networks, and the print media organizations associated with them, cover-up, lie and distort when it suits their interests.
And hopefully you will also find which news media sources you can rely on for the truth.
WhenItMattersMostJan 18, 2012
I used to have two tiny dogs when I was 5 years old. They were called SOPA and PIPA.
garvetechJan 18, 2012
so funny...
WhenItMattersMostJan 18, 2012
I would have found it funny as well if you weren't selling garve technologies.
urdumania1Jan 21, 2012
That didn’t take long. A few days ago the news broke that the pending Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was put on hold until consensus was reached. Al...
urdumania1Jan 21, 2012
That didn’t take long. A few days ago the news broke that the pending Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was put on hold until consensus was reached. Al...
urdumania1Jan 21, 2012
That didn’t take long. A few days ago the news broke that the pending Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was put on hold until consensus was reached. Al...
lilbambiJan 19, 2012
Totally wonderful to see!
sziyanJan 19, 2012
My vote of support to Wikepedia.
Closed AccountJan 18, 2012
I dun no wut this soap thing is but could u librals get it off the front page? its every story!!
hometechdudesJan 18, 2012
Are you familiar with SOPA? If not you should be! If this entertainment industry promoted nonsense goes through and becomes legislation in the US, it's the beginning of the end of the open web as you know it.
raineydoreenJan 18, 2012
Wikipedia supporting anti SOPA and PIPA bill.
dmeephdJan 18, 2012
Show your of support to Wikipedia. The government is working against The People to suppress free speech and we must stand against them!
ieatskunkJan 18, 2012
Whether you agree with the legislation or not, you have to admit that IP theft is a big problem, especially for companies like Microsoft and Adobe who's principal products are easily distributed on the low. There is only so much they can do to protect against it on their own. And the more they protect the more they inconvenience legit users.
Maybe the companies protesting should propose an alternative set of guidelines that would work to meet the need.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
angelselenaJan 18, 2012
I want to sign against it but becuase I'm in the UK I can't, even though this would effect the UK as much as the States :(
rvstudioJan 18, 2012
http://voteforthenet.com/
jeffhollonJan 18, 2012
To protest anything, by doing to yourself what you fear to be done, is stupid. Reddit and Wikipedia (and others participating in this self imposed blackout) are only hurting their audience and themselves. Google has it right with the blackout logo. The others have lost a lot of my respect. I almost wouldn't mind seeing SOPA pass for the websites that volunteered to be blacked out. I have an idea. Why don't we all protest war by starting one? Or protest hunger by destroying all food?Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
ieatskunkJan 18, 2012
Ya, I agree that it is stupidly ironic. The companies that are protesting do not have intellectual property that is stolen in appreciable quantities each day. (Compare to MS and how much they lose on each bootleg copy of Windows or Office. No one can really pirate Google's search algorithm or Chrome browser, or anything from Wikipedia.)
Im not saying this particular legislation is the answer, but I definitely see the irony.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
coyote1284Jan 18, 2012
The problem is that the content shared on Wikipedia and Reddit (and any social media or news aggregate site, like Digg) could be considered as infringing under the terms of SOPA and PIPA.
coyote1284Jan 18, 2012
Reddit's "audience" *is* Reddit, just as Diggs users are what makes Digg... Digg.
"Why don't we all protest war by starting one? Or protest hunger by destroying all food?" False dichotomy. Wikipedia and Reddit are not the entirety of the internet and you can still get information from other sources (as I am today). It's more like f**king a slut to protect someone else's virginity, or DelMonte removing their products at Wal-Mart for a day.
Still *need* Wikipedia? Google your subject, select Cache.