Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Reddit and Wikipedia Go Dark

Check in on Wikipedia or Reddit, among other sites, Wednesday and you'll be faced with a black screen and a plea to contact your congress-person to stop SOPA. Some of the biggest names in the internet machine have publicly spoken out against the bill, claiming it will make large file-sharing sites impossible to maintain. Now, a few sites like Wikipedia and Reddit are blacking their sites out Wednesday in protest...read the article below to learn more about the protest and how you can help! This would affect the ENTIRE INTERNET. Blogs, youtube, google, wikipedia...anything that has links to any site with stolen information could be shut down....not good. check it out!
http://news.yahoo.com/wikipedia-blackout-websites-wikipedia-reddit-others-dark-wednesday-214444829--abc-news.html

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