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And don't think you can spend the workday looking at #snowmageddon pictures on Reddit or nitpicking errors on Wikipedia forums. Those sites along with dozens of others are participating in an Internet blackout Wednesday to protest the Stop Online

scheduled a blackout on Jan 18th and urged others to do so as well. Other websites that came on board were Tucows, the Cheezburger network and there was even talk about a Wikipedia blackout (no official confirmation). Neither Google nor Facebook showed

Wikipedia joins blackout. A community vote is still being taken about what will happen but at the moment the plan is to redirect to an "education" site. The decision to shelve the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was announced on Saturday morning by

Looks like Wikipedia will protest the proposed anti-piracy legislation known as SOPA by disappearing for 24 hours: “The emerging consensus of the community seems to be for a global blackout of English Wikipedia,” Jimmy

The news comes after a lengthy debate as to the particulars of such a grand gesture — whether or not the site should participate at all, which versions of the site would be affected, and how exactly the blackout would go down

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