The largest online protest in history, to stop the internet censorship bills, SOPA & PIPA. Join in by blacking out your site and urging everyone you can reach to contact Congress now.
From personal blogs to Wikipedia, sites all over the web — including this one — are asking you to help stop this dangerous legislation from being passed.
Black out or use a ribbon on your sites Wednesday January 18 to protest forthcoming Internet blacklist legislation known as SOPA and PIPA.
EXCELLENT visual of what this is all about from Oatmeal
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) proposed by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) proposed by the U.S. Senate have the potential to severely cripple the free and open Internet.
To learn more about these devastating bills, and for information on how you can help to stop SOPA and PIPA, please visit the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Action Center.
STOP THE INTERNET BLACKLIST LEGISLATION!
Call your congress people to let them know this is unacceptable to the people
Many sites are participating in this world wide event
- Wikipedia English Version
- WordPress
- Matt Mullenberg – WordPress
- WordPress for Organizations
- Plugins Available
- Flickr
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RT @eileenludwig: Stop Internet Censorship Bills SOPA PIPA Contact Congress #travel http://t.co/ccizcgCE
Hopefully people will wake up to this bill and stop it before the internet loses its freedom. This is one of the more messed up pieces of legislation I’ve seen recently.