The English version of virtual encyclopedia Wikipedia will go dark for 24 hours on Wednesday in a protest against the Internet “Stop Online Piracy Act” that is gonna be discussed in the U.S. Congress, informed EFE on Tuesday.
In addition, the protest is gonna rally also other sites such as Reddit, Mozilla, or FailBlog WordPress. All these websites will be active only on the social networks Twitter and Facebook.
Wikipedia community has decided to stop the access to its English version of the website for one day, thus complaining against the piracy legislation proposed in the United States, reported on its website Wikimedia Foundation.
SOPA bill and its Senate version would decline the freedom of the Internet and will offer new tools for censorship of the international sites in the U.S., the Foundation added.
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Google and Facebook left open the possibility to temporarily terminate their services.
The “Stop Online Piracy Act” would allow the U.S. Justice Department to monitor and disconnect any individual or company that may be charged for use of copyright protected material in the U.S. and abroad.
Website SOPA-strike provides all information for joining the protest against the controversial act which is scheduled to be debated in the U.S. Senate on January 24, 2012.
Why doesn’t the entertainment industry take their stuff and go away from the Internet???