On Wednesday 18th January many sites will "go dark" in protest at the SOPA and PIPA laws which the US Government are planning to pass into law.

Sites such as Reddit, Wordpress and all English language Wikipedia pages will be taken offline for upto 24 hours, starting at midnight EST (5am UK time).

Other sites, such as Google will display a link to an article detailing it's opposition to the bill.

The firefox default startup page will be turned black and feature a "Call To Action" message.


http://www.allthingsd.com/20120117/list-of-sites-planning-sopa-protests-continues-to-grow/

http://www.sopastrike.com


Happy surfing

My firefox startup page was perfectly fine, and google is normal for me...

^It's only the .com versions of these sites.

Good to see Nick is taking part in the protest.


I'm doing my bit by not using Twitter or Facebook for 24 hours

Woops, not really looked into it.

Broxi - I agree, got such a surprise when I came on just seen a black square, but now it has came up with stop censorship.

Google's protest:


Firefox start page protest:




I wonder how many students have failed their exams due to not having access to Wikipedia

Nice, firefox page actually looks good with that

Supposedly Wikipedia has shut down to protest aswell (Just read bottom of your post.. but kept this in anyway!)

college taught me not to trust wikipedia, on my last course they would fail you if you used any part of wikipedia in your references.

You can still get into English Wikipedia if you disable JavaScript, or use the mobile version via your phone.


The award for the best SOPA Protest has to go to Minecraft





Edited at 19:36 Wed 18/01/12 (GMT)

You can also use wikipedia if you stop it loading before the blackout occurs

Megaupload has been shut down

^^Ya saw that....

Megaupload was going to get shut down sooner or later, SOPA/PIPA or not.
Take a look at this quote:

Anonymous are protesting, follow them on twitter, a group of around 5000 supposedly are flooding sites forcing them to shut down. They targeted FBI website last night, the US Government site and a lot more. All sites displayed 'The URL Cannot be reached'. It's interesting to see what they plan next - also they call it ' #opmegaupload '

I would like to correct myself on that post.
The Megaupload closure was nothing to do with SOPA nor PIPA. Megaupload has been in a law suit about this for over 2 years now and they were finally shut down yesterday.

Yep the owner of megaupload faces 20 years ; yet a man who admitted to running over a women and her 6month old daughter gets 4 years? Crazy stuff.

The hacktivists known as Anonymous have sent US Governments a warning - they have 72 hours to restore megaupload or they will shut down and target facebook/twitter/PSN/ Banks/ UN etc.

lol I'm against them as well. I just can't sympathize with criminals. This is nothing short of extortion and I hope they get caught sooner or later.

Who?

Anonymous