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As announced, Wikipedia's main page is "blackened" today in protest of the controversial Stop online privacy act (SOPA).

While websites are going dark, we'll try to bring a little light in your day. Here's today's top SOPA memes.

As announced, Wikipedia's main page is "blackened" today in protest of the controversial Stop online privacy act (SOPA).

While websites are going dark, we'll try to bring a little light in your day. Here's today's top SOPA memes.

One writer discusses why we need to understand and oppose SOPA — immediately.

A new, simple piece of code will turn any site dark to protest, along with Wikipedia, Reddit and more, the Stop Online Piracy Act.

Thousands of websites have joined the blackout in protest against the SOPA bill, as the controversial legislation is put to a vote in the US Congress. Participants range from giants like Wikipedia and Craigslist to tiny individual

Links 1/18/12, Stop SOPA Day. Lots of Internet protests planned, and we may get our tech act together to participate (I don't fool with the site plumbing but my tech guy is on the case). Looking at a partial day shutdown during

Instead of being able to see these actions as a referendum on the way SOPA attempts to prevent piracy, Dodd can only see corporate goons skulking in the shadows. We're not sure where this idea that Google makes its money on the backs of piracy came

STOP SOPA. Today there will be no posts on this blog in solidarity with many other sites who are taking a stand, such as Boing, Boing, Wikipedia.org and google.com. The reason for this internet black out is in response to the

By willDate: 01-16-2012 Views: SOPA, or Stop Online Piracy Act and PIPA, the Protect IP Act are bills that attempts to counter online piracy. It's supposed to fight against websites outside US who contain pirtated movies, songs, video games,

January 18th is also the day the internet—or parts of it—are going dark to protest SOPA and PIPA, the House and Senate's internet-killing anti-piracy bills. Though SOPA has been shelved and the White House has said it won't sign either bill,

By willDate: 01-16-2012 Views: SOPA, or Stop Online Piracy Act and PIPA, the Protect IP Act are bills that attempts to counter online piracy. It's supposed to fight against websites outside US who contain pirtated movies, songs, video games,

That's because the popular crowd-sourced online encyclopedia is participating in an "Internet blackout" in protest of two controversial anti-piracy bills: The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its Senate companion, the Protect IP Act (PIPA).

At this point, SOPA needs no introduction. But if you've been diligently ignoring it up until this point, good luck getting through January 18th.

NY Tech Meetup, a community comprised of more than 19000 technology enthusiasts, is planning a large rally for Wednesday afternoon to protest the anti-piracy legislation proposed by SOPA and PIPA. The rally will take place outside the midtown offices

Google on Tuesday announced it would make an unprecedented change to its homepage for American users on Wednesday, January 18, in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), the

The anti-SOPA and PIPA demonstrations don't stop with site-wide blackouts planned for Wednesday by a number of web giants. People also have plans to meet up in real life and take the protest to the streets in cities such as

Supporters of the pending PIPA/SOPA anti-piracy bills often use The Pirate Bay as a prime example of a website that can be taken out under the new legislation. But is that really the case? The Pirate Bay team has been silent on the issue, until now.

The “knowledge blackout” is aimed at protecting the Internet – and the website's very existence – from online censorship, which many are equating to a complete disregard of due process.