Internet Goes on Strike & Fights Against SOPA & PIPA?

Internet Goes on Strike & Fights Against SOPA & PIPA?

On Wednesday, some of the Internet's largest entities blacked out their websites or their logos or some of their content in a protest against the SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy bills making their way through Congress.

If you're wondering whether all of this had an effect, the answer is yes. Big time.

Wikipedia,...

• the largest Web player to block access to its pages for a full 24 hours.
• Reports that a whopping 162 million people experienced the blackout on the online encyclopedia's landing page.
• In addition, 8 million U.S. readers took Wikipedia's suggestion and looked up their congressional reps from the site.

Google reported Wednesday that...

• As of 1:30 PM PST, 4.5 million people had signed its petition asking lawmakers to reject the SOPA in the House and the PIPA in the Senate.

Twitter said...

• 2.4 million SOPA related tweets were sent in the first 16 hours of the day Wednesday.
• The top five terms were SOPA, Stop SOPA, PIPA, Tell Congress, #factswithoutwikipedia.

WordPress reports that...

• At least 25,000 WordPress blogs had joined the SOPA and PIPA protest by blacking out their blogs entirely
• An additional 12,500 had posted a "Stop Censorship" ribbon.

Below Internet Leads showed their protest against SOPA and PIPA..

Please don't censor the web

Imagine a world without free knowledge

STOP CENSORSHIP

CENSORED

Why Censoring..

A spokeswoman for Google says 4.5 million people signed anti-SOPA petition today

When Google speaks, the world listens. And today, when Google asked its users to sign a petitionprotesting two anti-piracy laws circulating in Congress, millions responded.

Congress, Can You Hear Us?

SAVE INTERNET.. STOP CENSORING.. !