SOPA/PIPA

While I haven't blacked out my site, I support the opposition to SOPA/PIPA and internet censorship. I think the internet blackout of many sites today is a great idea, although sadly sites which are tailored to less techie people didn't participate (most notably to me, Facebook and Twitter. I feel like either one of those blacking out at least partially would have been massive). Here's an email to a mailing list I'm on with a collection of a few related links. I'm thinking about doing a writeup of all the sites I can find which are blacked out what who the supporters of SOPA/PIPA are, but I'm really busy right now working on a new site and cleaning up old backups. If you're interested in learning more about SOPA/PIPA and the internet blackout, ars technica has a lot of good articles about it.

Date: Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:31 AM 

For those who don't know, a bunch of sites on the internet are going dark or otherwise opposing SOPA. Wikipedia went down earlier and will be down for a little under 24 more hours, reddit will be going down in 8 hours for 12 hours. Google blacked out their logo on searches and made a good series of sites talking about SOPA and PIPA. Sadly, Facebook, Twitter, and many other big sites decided to not join in. Here's some related links:

http://arstechnica.com/staff/palatine/2012/01/sopa-resistance-day-begins-at-ars.ars
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/18/us-internet-protest-idUSTRE80H01U20120118
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/google-scribd-and-wordpress-to-join-sopa-protest.ars
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/wikipedia-to-join-reddit-in-sopa-blackout-wednesday.ars
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/sopa-livesand-mpaa-calls-protests-an-abuse-of-power.ars
http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/stopped-they-must-be-on-this-all.html

Conveniently, Wikipedia left the SOPA and PIPA articles available:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIPA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more

http://www.fsf.org/
https://www.eff.org/
https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/
http://sopastrike.com/

If you're near San Francisco, you might be interested in this:
http://www.hackersandfounders.com/events/48317262/?eventId=48317262&action=detail