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Google, Wikipedia Go Dark In Protest
mtv.com 3 weeks, 6 days agoThousands of sites blacked out to protest SOPA legislation.By Gil Kaufman Google's homepage to protest web piracy bills Photo: Google A big black bar over the typically animated Google home page logo. No quick searches on the English-language Wikipedia. Those two internet giants are among the nearly 7,000 sites that voluntarily went dark or posted calls to action on Wednesday (January 18) in a protest against the U.S. House of Representatives' Stop Online Piracy Act and the Senate's similar Protect IP Act.
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US Chamber Of Commerce Appears To Argue That SOPA & PIPA Apply To NO Websites At All
techdirt.com 3 weeks, 6 days agoYesterday, I was on a "panel" discussion at the Congressional Internet Caucus's "State of the Net" event. At some point, I believe we'll have some video of that, which we can post. However, at one point, moderator Tim Lordan asked panelist Steve Tepp, from the US Chamber of Commerce, about the claims that SOPA/PIPA only impact "foreign" sites, and argued that under the definitions in the bill sites like Google.ca or Amazon.co.uk would be subject to the bills, and thus they would effect the American companie
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