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' Do we glimpse a little light from the future? Political protest via the World-wide Web? I like it ! So much more comfortable and safe than facing the cold and rain and police truncheons of the Occupy Movement!! · · · 
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Here's the complete list of sites that I know of who have committed to going dark or support protest of SOPA on Wednesday. Do you know of any more? Are any on this list erroneous?
Reddit
Wikipedia
AOL
eBay
Etsy
Facebook
Foursquare
Google
IAC
LinkedIn
Mozilla
OpenDNS
PayPal
Twitter
Yahoo!
Zynga
Boing Boing
Raspberry Pi
Cheezburger Network
Tucows
Red 5 Studios
On edit: Also, if you have a WordPress site, here's a free plugin that will allow your site to go dark too on Wednesday:http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/go-dark
This is an email list from a group I support.
Last edited by Ozymanithrax; 01/17/12 11:03 PM. Reason: Forgot some text.
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most of the sites cited will be in operation...don't have any idea where you got that list... Wiki, Reddit, BoingBoing, and many other sites will shut down, but unless you have some inside info that you want to share, I wouldn't expect Google, AOL, Pay Pal, Yahoo, Linked in, Twitter or Facebook to close... While most of these and many other site have supported the position against SOPA, they will probably support the challenge by offering a Page Top Plea. Here's the complete list of sites that I know of who have committed to going dark on Wednesday to protest SOPA. Maybe you could share the source.
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Google Joins Online SOPA Protest WASHINGTON -- Google will join thousands of tech activists, entrepreneurs and corporations on Wednesday in protesting the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act, a controversial bill that has generated national outrage among Internet experts.
On Wednesday, more than 7,000 websites are expected to voluntarily "go dark," by blocking access to their content to protest the bill, according to organizers of SOPAStrike.com. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to bring the measure to a vote next week. Some of the biggest names on the Internet plan to participate in the blackout, including Wikipedia, Mozilla, Reddit and WordPress. On Tuesday, Google stopped short of vowing to take down its popular search engine, but said it would change its home page to show solidarity with protesters.
"Like many businesses, entrepreneurs and web users, we oppose these bills because there are smart, targeted ways to shut down foreign rogue websites without asking American companies to censor the Internet," said a Google spokeswoman in a written statement provided to HuffPost. "So tomorrow we will be joining many other tech companies to highlight this issue on our U.S. home page."
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f*CK
Looks like ill actually have to work tomorrow.
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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Full listing of hundreds of participating websites. Not clear about which will protest in headlines or shutdown completely. SopaStrike
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Controversial anti-piracy legislation already on life support in the House, is now in serious doubt in the Senate, where the confluence of a Republican rump rebellion, White House concerns and a Wednesday blackout by Wikipedia, Mozilla and other big-name websites is enough to give some senators second thoughts. Republican Sen. Scott Brown, locked in a reelection fight with Elizabeth Warren in Democratic-leaning Massachusetts, announced on Twitter on Tuesday that he’d vote against the Senate's PROTECT IP Act and the House's Stop Online Piracy Act. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), once a co-sponsor, now opposes the bill, and sources involved in the fight say they expect more lawmakers to drop their support for the measure. It all amounts to this: Congress woke the sleeping tech giant, and now lawmakers are desperate to pacify it.
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...and the GOP and the Chamber of Commerce complain about burdensome regulations. 
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