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Stop SOPA – PIPA Protest
Here are some of the sites that are going dark today, or changing their home pages in protest over the proposed US legislation. For more information on why this legislation is so bad, check out these sites, or search for “SOPA” on Slaw or Techdirt.com, or just Google it.
Wikipedia:
Boing Boing
WordPress
EFF
This is Google’s US site. Google’s Canadian homepage does not seem to be affected.
Michael Geist
Possibly the coolest “gone dark” website to protest SOPA is the DPLA (Digital Public Library of America).
Hat tip: Meg Kribble
A U.S site invites non-American to petition the U.S. State Department:
http://americancensorship.org/#petition-state-department
(I’m an author, and this threatens my publisher and blog-host)
–dave