Wikipedia will 'go dark' on January 18.
According to the Wikimedia Foundation " On January 18, 2012, in an unprecedented decision,
the Wikipedia community has chosen to blackout the English version of
Wikipedia for 24 hours, in protest against proposed legislation in the
United States — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of
Representatives, and PROTECTIP (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate. 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 official Wikipedia statement can be found here.
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