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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

News: English Wikipedia will be blocked out globally to protest SOFA and PIPA.

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In less than 13 hours, the English Wikipedia will be blocked out globally to protest SOFA and PIPA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative#How_SOPA_will_hurt_the_free_web_and_Wikipedia

"SOPA has earned the dubious honor of facilitating Internet censorship in the name of fighting online infringement. The Wikimedia Foundation opposed that legislation, but we should be clear that Wikimedia has an equally strong commitment against copyright violations. The Wikimedia community, which has developed an unparalleled expertise in intellectual property law, spends untold hours ensuring that our sites are free of infringing content. In a community that embraces freely-licensed information, there is no room for copyright abuses."

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