Wikipedia blacked out its content yesterday for 24 hours to protest an on-line piracy bill that is currently being discussed among the legislators in the US congress.
The blackout was a big surprise to me and I am sure to many of you. Usually, most of my searches ends on Wikipedia. Since the contents were blocked, I had no choice but to move to other inferior website heavily bloated with lame advertisements. It was very frustrating not to be able to get even a single straight answer!
Wikipedia is indispensable. A world without it, is a very scary place to live.
This was posted on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CongressLookup?new=yes
ReplyDeleteThank you.
The Wikipedia blackout is over — and you have spoken.
More than 162 million people saw our message asking if you could imagine a world without free knowledge. You said no. You shut down Congress’s switchboards. You melted their servers. Your voice was loud and strong. Millions of people have spoken in defense of a free and open Internet.
For us, this is not about money. It’s about knowledge. As a community of authors, editors, photographers, and programmers, we invite everyone to share and build upon our work.
Our mission is to empower and engage people to document the sum of all human knowledge, and to make it available to all humanity, in perpetuity. We care passionately about the rights of authors, because we are authors.
SOPA and PIPA are not dead: they are waiting in the shadows. What’s happened in the last 24 hours, though, is extraordinary. The Internet has enabled creativity, knowledge, and innovation to shine, and as Wikipedia went dark, you've directed your energy to protecting it.
We’re turning the lights back on. Help us keep them shining brightly.