The most controversial in the Internet world is not the new scandal or any other shocking revelations from the celebrities, but it is the SOPA. This stands for Stop Online Piracy Act is an anti-piracy bill that is working its way through congress. Some of the most powerful websites on the web like Wikepedia and Reddit are going dark to complain the much-maligned anti-piracy bill.
In addition, Wikepedia and other websites who joined in an first-time Internet blackout on Wednesday have returned their websites back online with the vow to keep their fight going against the controversial SOPA and Protect IP Act (PIPA). In a statement on its site, Wikepedia showed gratitude to those who supported its shutdown yesterday, but claimed that they are not done yet.
Moreover, Wikepedia was one of the many huge sites that participate in the Internet strike yesterday. The website shut its content and changed its normal homepage with a message warning visitors with regard to the two anti-piracy bills. Other websites that did much the similar way included Reddit, Tucows, BoingBoing and an approximated 10,000 or much smaller sites.
Google, which is considered as a search giant site, also joined the protest as well, but did not shut out its website. Instead, it shut down its main logo. Fight for the Future, which is one of the groups that planned the protest claimed that four of the top ten websites around the web, 13 of the top 100 and another 40,000 much smaller websites participated in shutting down their sites yesterday.
Furthermore, the organization stated that of those quantities, 37,000 of the websites that went dark were on WordPress.com. It also provided an online rundown of statistics associated to the online protest. In general, over 4.5 million signatures were gathered and two million e-mails sent through various groups like Demand Progress and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
Fight for the Future plans to request Internet users to flood the telephone lines of their local representatives beginning January 23.The main site of the group will also anchor a live viewers participation stream where activists can pass their own concerns to a few senators who plan to filibuster the vote.
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