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Wikipedia will black out the English language version of its website Wednesday to protest anti-piracy legislation under consideration in Congress, the foundation behind the popular community-based online encyclopedia said in a statement Monday night.
The website will go dark for 24 hours in an unprecedented move that brings added muscle to a growing base of critics of the legislation. Wikipedia is considered one of the Internet's most popular websites, with millions of visitors daily.
"If passed, this legislation will harm the free and open Internet and bring about new tools for censorship of international websites inside the United States," the Wikimedia foundation said.
The Stop Online Piracy Act in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Protect Intellectual Property Act under consideration in the Senate are designed to crack down on sales of pirated U.S. products overseas.
Supporters include the film and music industry, which often sees its products sold illegally. They say the legislation is needed to protect intellectual property and jobs.
Critics say the legislation could hurt the technology industry and infringe on free-speech rights. Among their concerns are provisions that would weaken cyber-security for companies and hinder domain access rights.
The most controversial provision is in the House bill, which would have enabled federal authorities to "blacklist" sites that are alleged to distribute pirated content. That would essentially cut off portions of the Internet to all U.S. users. But congressional leaders appear to be backing off this provision.
Tech companies such as Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, eBay, AOL and others have spoken out against the legislation and said it threatens the industry's livelihood. Several online communities such as Reddit, Boing Boing and others have announced plans to go dark in protest as well.
The Obama administration also raised concerns about the legislation over the weekend and said it will work with Congress on legislation to help battle piracy and counterfeiting while defending free expression, privacy, security and innovation in the Internet.
Wikipedia's decision to go dark brings the issue into a much brighter spotlight. A group of Wikipedia users have discussed for more than a month whether it should react to the legislation.
Over the past few days, a group of more than 1,800 volunteers who work on the site and other users considered several forms of online protest, including banner ads and a global blackout of the site, the foundation said. Ultimately, the group supported the decision to black out the English version of the site.
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia who first announced the move on his Twitter account Monday, said the bills are a threat to the free, open, and secure web.
"The whole thing is just a poorly designed mess," Wales said in an email to The Associated Press.
Wikipedia is also requesting that readers contact members of Congress about the bill during the blackout.
"I am personally asking everyone who cares about freedom and openness on the Internet to contact their Senators and Representative," Wales said. "One of the things we have learned recently during the Arab Spring events is that the Internet is a powerfully effective tool for the public to organize and have their voices heard."
Wikipedia will shut down access from midnight Eastern Standard Time (0500 GMT) on Tuesday night until midnight Wednesday.
This is the first time Wikipedia's English version has gone dark. Its Italian site came down once briefly in protest to an Internet censorship bill put forward by the Berlusconi government; the bill did not advance.
"Wikipedia is about being open," said Jay Walsh, spokesman for the Wikimedia foundation. "We are not about shutting down and protesting. It's not a muscle that is normally flexed."
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2. What will internet idiots use to back up their half ass attempts to seem knowledgeable now?
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yeah dont ask for a source on Wednesday. who the hell knows what people will pull out of their asses.
might even end up with quotes from Fox and the Huffington Post. 
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curse.com is talking about blacking out too
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Good, hopefully this catches on and wakes people the eff up.
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yeah dont ask for a source on Wednesday. who the hell knows what people will pull out of their asses.
might even end up with quotes from Fox and the Huffington Post.
Everyone on ACF knows that when you need a source there are only a couple good places to go. Youtube, Blogs, and Op Ed pieces. Has Aerlinthain and BT taught you nothing.
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SOPA is such a bald-faced money grab by corporate entities made to protect their exploitative business practices that it galls me. I think the individual congressmen actually realize this but are so deep into the pockets of the lobbies that they can't actually see their way clear...
I know my statements are kind of obvious, especially at this late stage, I suppose all I really wanted to do is express my disbelief that this whole thing hasn't been shot down yet and faded into nothing yet.
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It would be awesome if Google, Yahoo, and Bing all blacked out as well. It would bring things to a screeching halt with no search engines.
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I hope Wikipedia gets a boatload of donations to.
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It would be awesome if Google, Yahoo, and Bing all blacked out as well. It would bring things to a screeching halt with no search engines.
Yeah would be awesome!
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I hope Wikipedia gets a boatload of donations to.
And then the RIAA/MPAA lawyers would go after them, win court cases against them amounting to all those donations and more, then Wikipedia would go offline for a few months and miraculously return as a pay-to-subscribe service owned by Sony...
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This is what governments do. They don't know anything, but somehow they think they know how to save us from ourselves.
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It would be awesome if Google, Yahoo, and Bing all blacked out as well. It would bring things to a screeching halt with no search engines.
yeah, at some point I heard Google and Twitter were talking about joining the blackout. might as well shut down the whole internet and send everybody home!
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It would be awesome if Google, Yahoo, and Bing all blacked out as well. It would bring things to a screeching halt with no search engines.
yeah, at some point I heard Google and Twitter were talking about joining the blackout. might as well shut down the whole internet and send everybody home!
I just saw the Dr. Who episode that your icon is taken from last night.
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It would be awesome if Google, Yahoo, and Bing all blacked out as well. It would bring things to a screeching halt with no search engines.
yeah, at some point I heard Google and Twitter were talking about joining the blackout. might as well shut down the whole internet and send everybody home!
IGn will be the only one left standing
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I don't think Google will, they're too big.
I'd love to see FB go dark for the day. Imagine the hundreds of thousands of people out there who don't know what a browser is (to say nothing of SOPA) suddenly becoming informed about what's going on. Congressional phones would be off the hook.
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Caledric posted:
It would be awesome if Google, Yahoo, and Bing all blacked out as well. It would bring things to a screeching halt with no search engines.
yeah, at some point I heard Google and Twitter were talking about joining the blackout. might as well shut down the whole internet and send everybody home!
I just saw the Dr. Who episode that your icon is taken from last night.
awesome, isn't it?  this is why Steven Moffat is the best Doctor Who writer ever.
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This will only be really effective if Facebook and Google follow suit
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No wikipedia could cause quite a bit of an issue depending upon what information you need.
What I see is 500,000 viruses infecting peoples systems because they NEED information, went to wiki, saw it was down, and then went to a random other site which happens to not be safe...
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Junkies will get the dirty needle tomorrow.
Pretty much.
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If Facebook and Twietter follow suit North American productivity will be double for the month.
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Too bad you can't black out THE HYPER ZIONISTS!
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If Facebook and Twietter follow suit North American productivity will be double for the month.
Too true.
But imagine if ACF went down too. We'd all be bored!
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I thought SOPA got shelved, at least for now, after the White House opposed it?
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I thought SOPA got shelved, at least for now, after the White House opposed it?
It has, but PIPA is still kicking.
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Hawkson posted:
Ah-Schoo posted:
If Facebook and Twietter follow suit North American productivity will be double for the month.
Too true.
But imagine if ACF went down too. We'd all be bored!
Nah. I'd just head over to pirate bay and download a movie or some games.
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to bad no one in congress will notice... like any of them even know how to turn on a computer
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to bad no one in congress will notice... like any of them even know how to turn on a computer
All the moronic crones in congress know is that the Intertubes is where crazy kids make nasty videos and such about them.
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Just remember though, SOPA means soup in spanish. Mark my words.
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