toadster920
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For those of you that don't know what SOPA is. It is a bill that, if passed will allow the music and movie industry to effectively kill the internet in America and make it, for the most part, totally useless. You can read more about the blackout planned by many English websites here:
http://www.webpronews.com/sopa-blackout-set-for-january-18th-heres-all-the-info-2012-01
Those are sites that do plan on blacking out their English webpages in protest. Google and facebook have also made mention that they may also go dark for the day and only display a message stating why the site is blacked out not down or experiencing issues.
You can read more about what SOPA plans to accomplish here:
http://gizmodo.com/5877000/what-is-sopa
Also lets not forget about SOPA's ugly stepchild PIPA which you can learn more about here:
http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/article-10012-pipa-is-the-new-sopa.html
http://www.webpronews.com/sopa-blackout-set-for-january-18th-heres-all-the-info-2012-01
Those are sites that do plan on blacking out their English webpages in protest. Google and facebook have also made mention that they may also go dark for the day and only display a message stating why the site is blacked out not down or experiencing issues.
You can read more about what SOPA plans to accomplish here:
http://gizmodo.com/5877000/what-is-sopa
Also lets not forget about SOPA's ugly stepchild PIPA which you can learn more about here:
http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/article-10012-pipa-is-the-new-sopa.html
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