The January 18 Blackout

THE JANUARY 18 BLACKOUT / STRIKE IN NUMBERS AND SCREENSHOTS 10,000,000 SIGNATURES OVER 3,000,000 EMAILS SENT Through EFF, FFTF and Demand Progress. Wikipedia wasn't even counting 115,000+ SITES PARTICIPATED IN THE STRIKE 45,000 on Wordpress.com alone, many more not recorded TWITTER STATS* 'as of late Wednesday, before the West Coast working day even ended! 2,200,000 411,000 *sopa *pipa 105,000 159,000 wikipedia #stopsopa 52,000 17,000 *sopastrike #sopablackout 9,000 *blackoutsopa Senators publicly against PIPA american, censorship day RRRRR Nov Ilb, 2011 Nov 17, 2011 8am Jan 18, 2012 8pm Jan 18, 201a *10 OF THESE ARE SOLID, WE NEED TO KEEP PUSHING OUR FAVORITE PROTESTERS Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia. Learn more. WIKIPEDIA Contact your representatives. AKILEDIN Your zip code: Look up Wikipedia REDDIT IS DOWN 103024 SOPA and PIPA damage WordPress. today we fight back. Dear reddit, PROTECT IP /SOPA Breaks Today, for 12 hours, reddit.com goes dark to raise awareness of two bills in congress: H.R.3261 "Stop Online Piracy Act" and S.968 "PROTECT IP", which could radically change the landscape of the Internet. These bills provide overly broad mechanisms for enforcement of copyright which PROTECT IP / SOPA E Internet would restrict innovation and threaten the existence of websites with user- submitted content, such as reddit. Please take today as a day of focus and action to learn about these destructive bills and do what you can to prevent them from becoming reality. 04:20 make a call sign the petition learn more Live Updates Reddit Google End Piracy, Not Liberty Home More about SOPA and PIPA Community More about SOPA and PIPA Videos Members of Congress are trying to do the right thing by going after pirates and counterfeiters but SOPA and PIPA are the wrong way to do it. Protect IP Act Breaks the Internet It won't work it will make the net worse 1. SOPA and PIPA would censor the Web and it will foster lawsuits. Meet the latest bill from entertainment industry.. The U.S. government could order the blocking of sites using methods similar to those employed by China. Among other things, search engines could be forced to delete entire websites from their search results. That's why 41 human rights organizations and 110 prominent law professors have expressed grave concerns about the bills. www PROTECT- 2. SOPA and PIPA would be job-killers because they would ) 0:00/3:52 You create a new era of uncertainty for American business Law-abiding U.S. internet companies would have to monitor everything users link to or upload or face the risk of time-consuming litigation. That's why AOL, EBay, Facebook, Google, Linkedin, Mozilla, Twitter, Yahoo and Zynga wrote a letter to Congress saying these bills "pose a serious risk to our industry's continued track record of innovation and job-creation." It's also why 55 of America's most successful venture capitalists expressed concern that PIPA PROTE Google NYC Protest WORDPRESS.ORG PROTESTS THE PROTEСT ІР АСТ Many websites are blacked out today to protest proposed U.S. legislation that threatens internet freedom: the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). From personal blogs to Wikipedia, sites all over the web - including this one- are asking you to help stop this dangerous legislation from being passed. Please watch the video below to learn how this legislation will affect internet freedom, then scroll down to take action. LEARN MORE PROTECT IP/SOPA Breaks The Internet Wordpress MAD petergabriel.com REALWORLD O THE NORDS FESTIVĀL "This year is going to be a very crucial year for the fate of digital rights and freedoms on the internet. We strongly support the campaign against both the Protect IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act. For that reason our website will be down today in support of the campaign. "Please check out http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the internet/ if you want to read more/sign the petition. "Thank you." Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel and KITTEN BBQ bad! OatMeal SAVE THE INTERNET PIPA O Black out my blogs for the rest of the day to protest PIPA. You can toggle this on your blog's Settings page. Thanks to action by a broad and bipartisan coalition of Internet users, companies, and organizations, the U.S. House of Representatives has now put the brakes on SOPA, a well- intentioned but deeply flawed bill that would use Internet censorship to combat overseas copyright infringement. Even President Obama's White House has joined the opposition. But nevertheless, the Senate is continuing to move forward – and fast – with its equally PIPA, the Protect-IP Act. As written, PIPA would import dangerous version bill, ca censorship and surveillance techniques pioneered by countries like China and Iran, reversing longstanding U.S. policy on Internet freedom, betraying U.S. First Amendment values, damagina ur standing around the world threatening our inh-creating innovators and Tumblr HANDS OFF THE INTERNET! DRUDGE REPORT DrudgeReport STOP SOPA / PIPA m why Eshoo opposes this bill. Eshoo's homepage, please dick the Xon the lower right. Congresswoman Anna Eshoo WIRED Don't Censor the Web. Don't Censor the Web. Sign Th Petition Tell Congress No on SOPA and PIPA Sign The Petition Now Google Tell Congress No on SOPA and PIPA Goog Why Censoring Wired SUBSCRIBE > SECTIONS>> BLOGS » REVIEWS » VIDEO > HOW-TOS > MAGAZINE UNCENSOR THIS PAGE Sign in | RSS Foeds All Wired Don't Censo the Web. Tell Congress No on SOPA and P Wired 503: Service Unavailable Boing Boing is offline today, because the US Senate is considering legislation that would certainly kill us forever. The legislation is called the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), and would put us in legal jeopardy if we linked to a site anywhere online that had any links to copyright infringement. This would unmake the Web, just as proposed in the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). We don't want that world. If you don't want it either, visit AmericanCensorship.org for instructions on contacting your Senator. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has more information on this and other issues central to your freedom online. Thanks, The Boingers BoingBoing Today, the Internet learned to defend itself. We could still lose... But things will never be the same. REMEMBER! THE SENATE RETURNS MONDAY TO VOTE ON PIPA Senators need to be called every day that week until they vote no on cloture. SENATE SWITCHBOARD: (202) 224-3121 January 2012 Sun1 Mon2 Go to Townhals Go to Townhals Meet Your Senators Go to Townhals Meet Your Senat Go to Townhals Go to Townhalls OMeet Your Senators Moet Your Senators Moet Your Serators Moet Your Senators Moet Your Senators Go to Townhalis Go to Townhalls Go to Townhalls Go to Townhalls Go to Townhals Meet Your Senators Go to Townhals Go to Townhalls Go to Townhals Go to Townhalls Moet Your Senators Moet Your Senators Meet Your Senators Moet Your Senators a Meet Your Senators Moet Your Sonat Go to Townhals OMeet Your Senators Moet Your Senatorn Meet Your Senators Go to Townhalls Go to Townhals Go to Townhalls Meet Your Senat. Go to Townhalis Go to Townhalls Strike! 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