Wikipedia Against SOPA, Announces Blackout For 24 Hours On Wednesday

If you are planning to take help of Wikipedia in completing your assignments, do it today! Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced on twitter that the English version of the site will be down for 24 hours on Wednesday.
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According to Jimmy Wales, the site will go down at midnight (Eastern Standard Time) on January 18 and will be up after 24 hours. He tweeted about warning students to complete their homework as site is going down on Wednesday. In his another tweet he mentioned that around 25 million viewers, who visit the English version daily, will be affected.
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Wikipedia has been criticizing Stop Online Piracy Act(SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act(PIPA) since the beginning, along with other giants like Google, Facebook etc. They are not alone in this plan, Reddit has also announced the black-out on Wednesday from 8 AM to 8 PM, along with Boing Boing and Cheezburger. Wikimedia foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia has been discussing the plan of protest for a long time and now, they have come up with this plan. While Wikipedia has a lot of support in this protest, they also have some criticism. Dick Costolo, CEO at Twitter, said that the protest is silly. He said in a tweet that closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish. Later he clarified that he was talking about Twitter only, not the protest as whole.
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