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![Revised main message<\/a>, by FT2 and others<\/li>\nGoogle: Tell Congress please don’t censor the Web!<\/a><\/li>\n2600.com is unavailable<\/a>.<\/li>\nDefault Firefox start page to highlight SOPA<\/a><\/li>\nTumblr plans reprise of “Protect the Net<\/a>” banners across its tumblogs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nOn the WP blackout:<\/p>\n\nWhy WP is still available<\/a> (just hard to reach)<\/li>\nA Blackout extension<\/a> for anyone running MediaWiki 1.17<\/li>\nThis could be the 1st time in years that en:wp:RecentChanges<\/a> is readable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAnalysis of WP blackout:<\/p>\n\nMiddle school teacher @ inforgood: why is wp going away for a day<\/a><\/li>\nMSNBC intentionally misses the point: big sites fail to protest<\/a><\/li>\nNY Times front page<\/a><\/li>\nLA Times sees little hope of peace with Hollywood<\/a><\/li>\nCNN front page<\/a><\/li>\nNew Statesman opinion essay<\/a> by WMUK trustee Steve Virgin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nReflection:<\/p>\nWHERE the mind is without fear and the head is held high\nWhere knowledge is free\nWhere the world has not been broken up into fragments\nBy narrow domestic walls\nWhere words come out from the depth of truth\nWhere tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection\nWhere the clear stream of reason has not lost its way\nInto the dreary desert sand of dead habit\nWhere the mind is led forward by thee\nInto ever-widening thought and action\nInto that heaven of freedom, my Father,\nlet my country awake. — R. 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