Wikipedia and other websites plan to go dark in protest. Reuters
SOPA Protest Nears Zero Hour -- Politico
Internet companies and activists are hoping to join the Arab Spring and other online democracy movements by taking an estimated 7,000 websites offline Wednesday to send a message to Washington: Don’t pass a pair of anti-piracy bills.
The websites that have announced plans to go dark include Wikipedia, Mozilla, Reddit and Wordpress, but some of the most visited websites are conspicuous in their absence.
And supporters of the copyright bills dismissed the blackout as a “stunt.”
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My Comment: To understand the issues that are involved, go here. As for myself .... unless Blogger goes offline .... I will be blogging tomorrow.
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