Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Wikipedia blackout

Wikipedia, the popular community-edited online encyclopedia, will black out its English-language site for 24 hours to seek support against proposed U.S. anti-piracy legislation that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said threatens the future of the Internet.
Gary Cameron/REUTERS
www.theatlantic.com

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales talking about this to the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16590585
Some background to the blackout:

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