SOPA blackout – Google to follow!

Google has confirmed that it is joining biggies like Reddit and Wikipedia in the march against SOPA / PIPA

Refer the below links where-in the industry biggies discuss their takes on SOPA, and the blackout as it happens.

- The Verge - The SOPA blackout: Wikipedia, Reddit, Mozilla, Google, and many others protest proposed law.

- CNET - Google To Join Anti-SOPA “Blackout Day” With Home Page Protest

- PCWORLD - Wikipedia, Craigslist, Other Sites Black out Against SOPA at Midnight

UPDATE: Google.com landing page updated with the anti SOPA/PIPA petition.

CLICK HERE to view and sign!

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How To - Access Wikipedia during BLACKOUT

 

Although we as an end-user of the internet are the ones who will take the direct hit due to the SOPA and PIPA, there may be a chance that while supportive, you may still need to access the online encyclopedia during this blackout.

The Wikipedia is now completely dark WRT its protest of SOPA and PIPA acts but you can still access the encyclopedia if you actually need to do it.

As per the Wall Street Journal,

While the free encyclopedia is planning to blackout the English version of its site on Wednesday to protest antipiracy legislation, people still will be able to access Wikipedia information via other sources.

The mobile version of Wikipedia, which draws millions of page requests a day, will remain up and running, says Jay Walsh, a spokesman for the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia.

Cached versions of Wikipedia web pages, or stored versions of the site, also are likely to be available, he said, depending on the operations of the other Web companies that archive the site.

Internet companies that use an API, or special computer code, to pull in information from Wikipedia also will be able to access that information. Social networking giant Facebook Inc. has been a major user of Wikipedia content to populate some information on its pages, such as this page about sushi, for example.

“We don’t have any control over that nor would we necessarily want to, partially because the information is freely reusable,” Mr. Walsh said.

You can also hit [ESC] before the black-out page loads;

OR

Disable JavaScript in your browser. If you are using Firefox right now, get this nifty little add-on “NoScript”.

Fire up the wiki page, hit NoScript and you are on.

That said, we jointly support the populace’s movement against these acts.

Learn about SOPA here.

Wikipedia to follow the Blackout March – SOPA and PIPA targeted.

Wikipedia community is going forward in its decision to black out the English Wikipedia for 24 hours / worldwide This will start at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18.

Wikipedia is joining biggies like Reddit, Mozilla and Boing Boing in its march for internet freedom.

The official take is here as the statement from the Wikimedia Foundation.

The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation in the United States—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate.

For the un-initiated, SOPA will “authorize the U.S. Department of Justice to seek court orders against websites outside U.S. jurisdiction accused of infringing on copyrights, or of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement”

Refer the link for details of the blackout. Also, follow this link for “All The Info”

The below video tells you about all you need to know about the bad bad details of these bill, which if passed will kill the freedom of online speech.

Details about SOPA and PIPA!

 

No doubt, this rebellion is required to emulate the real cost of internet censorship.
Refer this link for showing support to this via Twitter, word-press users can do this.