Monday marks four years (hard to believe) since the PIPA protests. Should
we post the attached photo with the straight-forward verbiage:
Facebook:
On this day in 2012, English-language Wikipedia sites joined other Internet
sites in protesting the PIPA and SOPA legislation by staging a "blackout"
of service for 24 hours.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act#Companies_and_organizations
Twitter:
On this day in 2012, English-language Wikipedia sites blacked out for 24
hours to protest PIPA and SOPA legislation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act#Companies_and_organizations
Welcome your thoughts. It seems to me its an important part of our history,
but I wasn't here. (At Storify we stayed up because many wanted our service
to help chronicle the protests.)
Jeff Elder
Digital communications manager
Wikimedia Foundation
704-650-4130
@jeffelder <https://twitter.com/JeffElder>
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