Never mind taking over Wall Street - how about shutting down one of the most used resources on the web.That's what Wikipedia plans to to due in protest of the Stop Online Privacy Act.
Just this weekend, new tweeter, Rupert Murdoch attacked President Obama (when the White House expressed concerns about SOPA) and Google for profiting from piracy This fight will pit film studios/media companies/music studios against technology giants like Google/Facebook/Wikipedia.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/01/17/bloomberg_articlesLXXMTT6S972A01-LXXTS.DTL
Jan.
17 (Bloomberg) -- Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia where users
contribute and edit entries, will shut the English version of its
website for 24 hours tomorrow to oppose proposed U.S. anti-piracy
legislation.
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The
move is a protest against pending legislation including the Stop Online
Piracy Act, or SOPA, bill, according to a statement by Wikimedia
Foundation Inc., the non-profit organization that operates the
encyclopedia
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"If
passed, this legislation will harm the free and open Internet and bring
about new tools for censorship of international websites inside the
United States," Wikimedia said in the statement.
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