As the postponed January 18th hearing for SOPA approaches, organizations like Cheezburger and Reddit are announcing demonstrations for their opposition, blacking out portions of or their entire site officially starting on the 18th.
And Wikipedia is the latest to jump on; founder Jimmy Wales said in a discussion page that he’s, “all in favor of it, and [thinks] it would be great if [Wikipedia] could act quickly to coordinate with Reddit. [He’d] like to talk to [their] government affairs advisor to see if they agree on this as useful timing, but assuming that’s a greenlight, [he] think[s] that matching what Reddit does (but in [their] own way of course) per the emerging consensus on how to do it, is a good idea.”
The two Internet giants are left out of the SOPA blackout demonstrations (Google and Facebook),who would ultimately send out the largest message in terms of SOPA, but nothing has been reported in the works for either, despite their talk about having much opposition to the bill.
The SOPA movement is picking up speed in light of Reddit’s initiative, but still need more support to make it more effective. You can participate in various protests on Twitter, Google+, Facebook, Blogspot, and Tumblr.
(photo via Google)
(via Forbes & Google+ blog; photo via Skatter Tech)
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