Wikipedia to black out all 3.8 million English-language pages to protest PIPA
Wikipedia is going black on Wednesday, January 18, to help fight the contentious Protect IP Act (PIPA), which is set to go for a vote before the Senate on January 24. The move, first reported by Neal Mann, digital news editor at Sky News, was announced by Jimmy Wales, co-founder of the far-reaching online encyclopedia, on Twitter. Wales says the blackout was a “community decision.”

Aaron 7:56 pm on January 16, 2012 Permalink |
kris 7:58 pm on January 16, 2012 Permalink |
It’s going to be awesome. We can just make up stuff and people who don’t know how to use Google cache won’t be able to verify if we’re bs’ing.