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SOPA Blackout: Wikipedia Still Accessible -- With A Little Effort
latimes.com 4 weeks agoWikipedia is the biggest name among the approximately 10,000 websites that pledged to go dark Wednesday in a broad Internet protest of the SOPA and PIPA online anti-piracy bills . But word has quickly spread about how to circumvent the blackout. Visitors to Wikipedia's English-language site -- either directly to its homepage or via a link from a search engine query -- are diverted in seconds to a dark page that asks people to "Imagine a world without free knowledge." There's a couple of sentences about thre
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8 Million People Looked Up Their Elected Officials' Contact Info During Wikipedia Blackout
techdirt.com 3 weeks, 6 days agoThink the blackouts were just a "publicity stunt" that didn't wake up the American people to a serious problem with the legislative process? Wikipedia has now revealed that an astounding eight million people used its tool to look up their elected officials' contact info. It's not yet clear how many actually called, but some information on calls is starting to come out, and it sure sounds like a lot of people called. We heard from multiple Senate staffers that the phones -- both in DC and back home in the di
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