As announced, Wikipedia’s main page is “blackened” today in protest of the controversial Stop online privacy act (SOPA).
“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,” says the message on the page.
The actual articles on Wikipedia are actually accessible for a short
period of time, after which they redirect the visitor to the blackened
main page.
For millions of Wikipedia visitors today, the message will be clear:
one of the most influential sites and communities on the internet is
clearly against SOPA. Many other sites, including Reddit, will join the
protest by shutting down or “blacking out” their homepages today.
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