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Photo / Supplied New Zealand website owners can now join a Kiwi version of today's "blackout" protest against America's internet piracy laws, thanks to a Wellington web developer. Website and app designer Jack Mahoney has adapted the protest against
In a move that heightens the growing tension between Silicon Valley and Hollywood, Wikipedia and other websites went dark Wednesday in protest of two congressional proposals. (Jan. 18) (/The Associated Press) Correction: Clarification: SuperFan badge
Flickr Joins SOPA Protest, Lets Users Black Out Photos. Sarah Perez. posted 6 hours ago. Comments. View Staff Page Follow me on Twitter. Sarah currently works as a writer for TechCrunch, after having previously spent over
A list of websites taking part in protesting SOPA and PIPA — including Google, Wikipedia, Craigslist, Reddit, Boing Boing, Ars Technica, Wired, The Verge, TechCrunch, O'Reilly Radar, 4Chan, Mozilla Firefox's start page,
It looks like the SOPA blackout day has encouraged many citizens to get out and email their senators to voice their disapproval. If you head over to the US Senate's home page and reach this list of senators, many (if not all) of the "contact" links are
The online encyclopedia was one of the major sites participating in a blackout to protest anti-piracy legislation. Its opponents say the proposed law would hinder sites such as Wikipedia and Youtube that take information from many different sources.
You probably woke up this morning to realize the Internet is totally screwy. Is it the online apocalypse? Not so much. Google, Wikipedia, Boing Boing and others have gone dark, along with thousands of others, who are
If you've got a question that needs answering during the big Stop SOPA blackout, feel free to leave a comment here and I will make up an answer. Meanwhile, contact Hagan and Watt and tell them you'd like your internet
You probably woke up this morning to realize the Internet is totally screwy. Is it the online apocalypse? Not so much. Google, Wikipedia, Boing Boing and others have gone dark, along with thousands of others, who are
Numerous Internet companies engaged in a blackout protest Wednesday against two anti-piracy bills, SOPA and its counterpart in the Senate, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA).
As you've probably heard, English Wikipedia is blacked out today in protest at proposed US legislation that could limit access to information on the web. To fill the temporary info-gap, we thought we'd build our own wiki of London information,
You probably woke up this morning to realize the Internet is totally screwy. Is it the online apocalypse? Not so much. Google, Wikipedia, Boing Boing and others have gone dark, along with thousands of others, who are
Three co-sponsors of the SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy bills in Congress have publicly withdrawn their support as Wikipedia and thousands of websites blacked out their pages Wednesday to protest the legislation.
By Gregg Keizer Computerworld – A security company's advice on how to circumvent today's Wikipedia blackout has roiled some users. Earlier Wednesday UK-based Sophos told users they could access Wikipedia — which blacked itself out as part of a
Wikipedia is down in protest of SOPA, but there's a couple of workarounds you can use to access Wikipedia's content.