Popular site manager in the U.S. is a compact application of laws against anti-piracy Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Plan "blackout" was revealed.
Plan "blackout", aka close the service for a while, it began to emerge since the law was considered too curb. Its application includes the steps blocking sites deemed violated.
Protests against SOPA conducted by Reddit.com. In its official blog, user generated content sites that set the date for January 18, 2012 as SOPA Blackout Day. On that day, local time, Reddit will be turned off for 12 hours.
This action was followed by the Wikimedia Foundation, which will close the service in English Wikipedia for 24 hours. In its official statement, the Wikimedia Foundation, calls this a difficult step.
"Our opinion on Speak English Wikipedia community, if the law was passed, would be disastrous for the web that are free and open," said the statement.
This step confirms the statement Wikimedia Foundation co-founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, who strongly protested the law.
Previously, the founder of Twitter has also protested to garner support through avatars. All supporters of the anti-SOPA replace their avatar with the logo and writing anti-SOPA.
As rumored Techland Time.com, companies in Silicon Valley, such as Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Google, Wikipedia, and PayPal will be offline on January 18, 2012.
However, the plan was not yet certain. Some companies are still not yet officially announced whether it will participate in Blackout Day or not.
Facebook, for example, on the same day it planned to conduct the activities by inviting the media, while Twitter probably would not be turned off on that day.
Did not enter the demise of Twitter actually received support from Jimmy Wales. According to him, Twitter is better to stay active and is used to coordinate the movement of these anti-SOPA.
White House and U.S. President Barack Obama also said that he agreed with SOPA and already his official rejection letters sent to the Senate.
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If open wikipedia today, you will find the message "Please note: In less than 24 hours, the Home Simple Will be blacked out globally to protest SOPA and PIPA". This protest was first performed by Wikipedia against public policy and it is recognized not light.
Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, the official statement through Press releases / Classic Simple to go dark, said "Today Wikipedians from around the world have spoken of their opposition to legislation that ruin it". Furthermore, Jimmy Wales said, "It is extraordinary measures taken for our society - And while we regret that prevents the world to access Wikipedia for even one second, we can not ignore the fact that the Sopa and PIPA endanger freedom of speech in both the United States and abroad, and set a terrible precedent for the world of Internet censorship. "
Simple decision taken was done after getting a response from the voting conducted the Wikipedia community, which consists of a number of writers and editors who run this free service. On Monday evening, the Administrator Wikipedia confirmed this decision in a public statement "Wikipedia: SOPA Initiative / Action"
In a public statement it is mentioned that during the last 72 hours, more than 1800 Wikipedians have joined together to discuss the proposed action by the community to take a stand and fight the Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protest Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). This is the greatest level of participation in community discussion ever seen on Wikipedia, which describes the level of concern that Wikipedians felt threatened by this legislation. The majority of participants supported the act and decision support for Wikipedia to "black out" the English Wikipedia.
To read the full explanation of this action, you can see the Wikipedia description page is submitted in writing by the Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation, Sue Gardner, under the title Classic Simple anti-SOPA blackout.
In the initial description mentioned that the current Wikipedia community announced its decision to "black out" the English Wikipedia for 24 hours, all over the world, starting at 05:00 UTC Wednesday, January 18, 2012. This explanation is based on official statements Wikimedia Foundation, Press releases / Classic Simple to go dark.
At the time of closing later, Wikipedia visitors will see only see information about the controversy Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protest Intellectual Property Act (PIPA).
At the end of the official statement, Wikipedia urge readers to vote and opinion. For those who live in the United States, can find their representatives in Washington (https://www.eff.org/sopacall). While living outside the United States, Wikipedia urged to contact the Department of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the same branch of government, to tell him that you oppose Sopa and PIPA, and want to keep the internet open and free.
Plan "blackout", aka close the service for a while, it began to emerge since the law was considered too curb. Its application includes the steps blocking sites deemed violated.
Protests against SOPA conducted by Reddit.com. In its official blog, user generated content sites that set the date for January 18, 2012 as SOPA Blackout Day. On that day, local time, Reddit will be turned off for 12 hours.
This action was followed by the Wikimedia Foundation, which will close the service in English Wikipedia for 24 hours. In its official statement, the Wikimedia Foundation, calls this a difficult step.
"Our opinion on Speak English Wikipedia community, if the law was passed, would be disastrous for the web that are free and open," said the statement.
This step confirms the statement Wikimedia Foundation co-founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, who strongly protested the law.
Previously, the founder of Twitter has also protested to garner support through avatars. All supporters of the anti-SOPA replace their avatar with the logo and writing anti-SOPA.
As rumored Techland Time.com, companies in Silicon Valley, such as Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Google, Wikipedia, and PayPal will be offline on January 18, 2012.
However, the plan was not yet certain. Some companies are still not yet officially announced whether it will participate in Blackout Day or not.
Facebook, for example, on the same day it planned to conduct the activities by inviting the media, while Twitter probably would not be turned off on that day.
Did not enter the demise of Twitter actually received support from Jimmy Wales. According to him, Twitter is better to stay active and is used to coordinate the movement of these anti-SOPA.
White House and U.S. President Barack Obama also said that he agreed with SOPA and already his official rejection letters sent to the Senate.
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If open wikipedia today, you will find the message "Please note: In less than 24 hours, the Home Simple Will be blacked out globally to protest SOPA and PIPA". This protest was first performed by Wikipedia against public policy and it is recognized not light.
Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, the official statement through Press releases / Classic Simple to go dark, said "Today Wikipedians from around the world have spoken of their opposition to legislation that ruin it". Furthermore, Jimmy Wales said, "It is extraordinary measures taken for our society - And while we regret that prevents the world to access Wikipedia for even one second, we can not ignore the fact that the Sopa and PIPA endanger freedom of speech in both the United States and abroad, and set a terrible precedent for the world of Internet censorship. "
Simple decision taken was done after getting a response from the voting conducted the Wikipedia community, which consists of a number of writers and editors who run this free service. On Monday evening, the Administrator Wikipedia confirmed this decision in a public statement "Wikipedia: SOPA Initiative / Action"
In a public statement it is mentioned that during the last 72 hours, more than 1800 Wikipedians have joined together to discuss the proposed action by the community to take a stand and fight the Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protest Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). This is the greatest level of participation in community discussion ever seen on Wikipedia, which describes the level of concern that Wikipedians felt threatened by this legislation. The majority of participants supported the act and decision support for Wikipedia to "black out" the English Wikipedia.
To read the full explanation of this action, you can see the Wikipedia description page is submitted in writing by the Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation, Sue Gardner, under the title Classic Simple anti-SOPA blackout.
In the initial description mentioned that the current Wikipedia community announced its decision to "black out" the English Wikipedia for 24 hours, all over the world, starting at 05:00 UTC Wednesday, January 18, 2012. This explanation is based on official statements Wikimedia Foundation, Press releases / Classic Simple to go dark.
At the time of closing later, Wikipedia visitors will see only see information about the controversy Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protest Intellectual Property Act (PIPA).
At the end of the official statement, Wikipedia urge readers to vote and opinion. For those who live in the United States, can find their representatives in Washington (https://www.eff.org/sopacall). While living outside the United States, Wikipedia urged to contact the Department of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the same branch of government, to tell him that you oppose Sopa and PIPA, and want to keep the internet open and free.
