Thursday, January 19, 2012

Website Blackouts have effect on SOPA

VirtualWorld.ca


Yesterday Wikipedia.org and other websites went dark in protest of the planned SOPA legislation.  It appears this tactic has worked, as support for SOPA is starting to fade.


Even though the biggest corporate opponents of SOPA and PIPA – Google, Facebook and Twitter, among others – didn’t go dark on Wednesday, the digital blackout appears to have prompted several key legislators to drop their support for the bills, in the process altering the political landscape and making it far less likely either bill will pass smoothly.


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