Wikipedia To Protest SOPA With Site Shutdown
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Uploaded by slatester on Jan 17, 2012
A warning to high-school students and undergrads: You may want to dust off
your library cards. Wikipedia has announced it will join the sites Reddit and
Boing Boing and go offline Jan. 18 to protest the Stop Online
Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act being debated by Congress.
Lobbied by some big media companies and designed to block access to sites
containing unauthorized copyright material, SOPA and PIPA have drawn broad
opposition online. The White House recently stepped back from supporting
the legislation and hinted at a possible veto from President Obama. Jimmy
Wales, Wikipedia's founder, told BBC News, "The bill is so overbroad and
so badly written that it's going to impact all kinds of things that, you
know, don't have anything to do with stopping piracy." Somebody, quick, add
that quote to SOPA's Wiki page.
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fuck SOPA╭∩╮（⃕‿⃕）╭∩╮
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WE NEED WIKIPEDIA .. ALL STUDENTS NEED IT :D
1 month ago 2
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SOPA HAS BEEN SHUTDOWN :D
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Youtube? Megauploads? FB? WTF? EVEN PORN?
Is the government fucking stupid?
Sad... I guess our teachers we're right, go out and vote, because its "you" (young people) are what matter the most. Or old people will keep things the same and abide by their own rules.
Man i should have listened...
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@BlowMeAssbag come down u fool. go stand up to ur angel gov yeah.
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@jojo1ukuk Please don't post if you can't even make yourself legible. I swear it's amazing that some of you bastards can even manage to breathe.
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didnt they do this in fake uprising in egypt too. land of the free. plz dont call ur country LAND OF THE FREE.
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internet killswitch 2012 is than. oh no so called mayan 2012 is coming and fake global warming etc.
the western world being doing cenorship since the internet was born u fool. remember rockerfeller didnt wanted the internet in the first place u fool. land of the free funny. war on terrorism so funny.
this reminds of somalia and palestine so called PIRACY.
where in somalia they dump toxic etc.
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FUCK YOU SOPA!..
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