It has been 12 hours since the blackouts protesting SOPA and PIPA started.\u00a0 Below is\u00a0 coverage from the English-language Net.<\/p>\n
Best quotes so far:<\/p>\n
“Wikipedia<\/a> blacked out.\u00a0 Fine, I’ll buy some used encyclopedias from Craigslist<\/a>.\u00a0 WTF?\u00a0 I’m going to Reddit<\/a> to complain about this.\u00a0 OMG!!<\/em>”<\/p>\n
“Icanhazcheezeburger<\/a>?! OK, this is serious now.”<\/p>\n
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In Wikipedia land<\/strong>:<\/p>\n
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- The response to the English Wikipedia blackout has been overwhelmingly positive.\u00a0 The OTRS team (a community group that handles most email inquiries about Wikipedia) has been handling the surge of correspondence beautifully.<\/li>\n
- a post by Sue Gardner<\/a> on the WMF blog about the blackout have together received over 10,000 comments from readers — roughly 3x the total # of comments received in the entire history of the blog.\u00a0 90% of them are supportive of the blackout, 5% are opposed, and 5% are neutral.<\/li>\n
- Fellow trustee Stu West suggests that 100M Wikipedia readers<\/a> may read about the bills today via Wikipedia –\u00a0 half via the blackout on English Wikipedia, and half from banners on other language projects and the mobile sites.\u00a0 (Another large audience saw the ‘heads-up’ banner we ran all day yesterday.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Elsewhere on the Web<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n
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- Google shared a brilliant doodle and a page asking for Congress’s ear<\/a> have gathered a great deal of attention.<\/li>\n
- Mozilla changed the default Firefox start page<\/a> to protest SOPA.<\/li>\n
- The SOPA\/PIPA-protest music videos<\/a> keep getting better.<\/li>\n
- Microsoft comments in the mildlest possible language that it opposes<\/a> the bills as currently drafted.<\/li>\n
- Zephoria’s blog<\/a> goes dark.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In Washington<\/strong>, politicians are beginning taking notice. They seem to be seriously considering and commenting on the demonstrated failings of the legislation on hand, not just backing off (as GoDaddy did) to await ‘consensus’.<\/p>\n
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- Late Tuesday, Rep Lee Terry [R-Nebraska], a SOPA co-sponsor, withdrew his support for SOPA<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- At 10am Wednesday, Senator Marco Rubio<\/a> [R-Florida], a PIPA co-sponsor, withdrew his support for PIPA<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- At 2pm Wednesday, Rep Tim Holden [D-Pennsylvania], a SOPA co-sponsor, withdrew his support for SOPA<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Other coverage online<\/strong>:<\/p>\n
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- Techdirt has an excellent recap of why SOPA and PIPA are dangerous and unnecessary<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- …and reminds us that our current protections from domain seizures and shutdowns are already inadequate, and have been abused to censor smaller sites<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- SopaBlackout.org<\/a> offers resources for activists<\/li>\n
- New York papers are covering the city’s SOPA protests<\/a>, the largest in the country.<\/li>\n
- Coz Ezra Klein explains why the Internet’s still protesting<\/a>, on his WonkBlog<\/li>\n
- Sarah Stierch blogs about the SOPA blackout and why Wikipedia needs women<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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![default Firefox start page<\/a> to protest SOPA.<\/li>\nThe SOPA\/PIPA-protest music videos<\/a> keep getting better.<\/li>\nMicrosoft comments in the mildlest possible language that it opposes<\/a> the bills as currently drafted.<\/li>\nZephoria’s blog<\/a> goes dark.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn Washington<\/strong>, politicians are beginning taking notice. They seem to be seriously considering and commenting on the demonstrated failings of the legislation on hand, not just backing off (as GoDaddy did) to await ‘consensus’.<\/p>\n\nLate Tuesday, Rep Lee Terry [R-Nebraska], a SOPA co-sponsor, withdrew his support for SOPA<\/a>.<\/li>\nAt 10am Wednesday, Senator Marco Rubio<\/a> [R-Florida], a PIPA co-sponsor, withdrew his support for PIPA<\/a>.<\/li>\nAt 2pm Wednesday, Rep Tim Holden [D-Pennsylvania], a SOPA co-sponsor, withdrew his support for SOPA<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nOther coverage online<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\nTechdirt has an excellent recap of why SOPA and PIPA are dangerous and unnecessary<\/a>.<\/li>\n…and reminds us that our current protections from domain seizures and shutdowns are already inadequate, and have been abused to censor smaller sites<\/a>.<\/li>\nSopaBlackout.org<\/a> offers resources for activists<\/li>\nNew York papers are covering the city’s SOPA protests<\/a>, the largest in the country.<\/li>\nCoz Ezra Klein explains why the Internet’s still protesting<\/a>, on his WonkBlog<\/li>\nSarah Stierch blogs about the SOPA blackout and why Wikipedia needs women<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been 12 hours since the blackouts protesting SOPA and PIPA started.\u00a0 Below is\u00a0 coverage from the English-language Net. Best quotes so far: “Wikipedia blacked out.\u00a0 Fine, I’ll buy some used encyclopedias from Craigslist.\u00a0 WTF?\u00a0 I’m going to Reddit to complain about this.\u00a0 OMG!!” “Icanhazcheezeburger?! OK, this is serious now.” In Wikipedia land: […]<\/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_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":[206,205,209,709],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-mod","category-glory-glory-glory","category-popular-demand","category-wikipedia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-xf","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","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=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2063,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions\/2063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.com\/files\/2012\/01\/mozilla-strike-sopa-fx-default-start-page.png\"){kind=link}