Wikipedia, Reddit plan blackout in SOPA protest
By Julianne Pepitone @CNNMoneyTech January 17, 2012
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- A handful of large websites will go dark on Wednesday to protest an anti-piracy bill that critics say will wreck the Internet as we know it.
Wikipedia, user-submitted news site Reddit, the blog Boing Boing and the Cheezburger network of comedy sites all plan to participate in the blackout. The protest is their response to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill, a piece of proposed legislation that is working its way through Congress.
Introduced in the House of Representatives in late October, the bill aims to…
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