{"id":2032,"date":"2012-01-18T00:02:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T04:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=2032"},"modified":"2012-01-18T10:10:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T14:10:17","slug":"preserving-internet-freedom-protesting-sopa-and-the-wikipedia-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2012\/01\/18\/preserving-internet-freedom-protesting-sopa-and-the-wikipedia-blackout\/","title":{"rendered":"Preserving Internet freedom: protesting SOPA and the Wikipedia blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4060\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.laptop.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sopa-screenshot-450x94.png?resize=420%2C85\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"85\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: black;color: white;font-size: 110%;padding: 10px;margin: 5px 0 5px 0\">Thousands of web sites across the Internet are shutting down today to protest proposed U.S. laws (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SOPA\">SOPA<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PROTECT_IP_Act\">PIPA<\/a>) that would make it difficult for websites to host community-generated content on the Internet. Most notably, the English Wikipedia is <a href=\"http:\/\/wikimediafoundation.org\/wiki\/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout\">implementing a 24-hour blackout<\/a>, replacing articles with a notice describing the two bills and encouraging readers to take action to stop them.Please take a moment to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2012\/01\/how-pipa-and-sopa-violate-white-house-principles-supporting-free-speech\">learn more about the bills and why they would be harmful to the open Web<\/a>, to open education, and to present and future collaborative projects.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/eff.org\">Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a> and other non-profit organizations dedicated to preserving freedom on the Web have ways that you can make your voice heard in the national and international debate about these proposed laws.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of web sites across the Internet are shutting down today to protest proposed U.S. laws (SOPA and PIPA) that would make it difficult for websites to host community-generated content on the Internet. Most notably, the English Wikipedia is implementing a 24-hour blackout, replacing articles with a notice describing the two bills and encouraging readers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[211,218,209,219,1,709],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-not-so-popular","category-popular-demand","category-rogue-content-editor","category-uncategorized","category-wikipedia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-wM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2056,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions\/2056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}