FAQ-I Sheet Topic: ________________Internet Piracy________________________

MLA Entry: Wikipedia press release after online protests________________________________

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Over the course of 24 hours on Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 162 million people experienced the Wikipedia blackout landing page -- an unprecedented, historic shuttering of the largest repository of free knowledge in the world. More than 8 million U.S. readers looked up their Congressional representatives through Wikipedia to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) -proposed U.S. legislation that, if passed, will harm the free and open Internet. 162 million of

Wikipedia supports free and open knowledge on the internet.

Who else might be against a censored internet?

I may be able to use this information in my SOPA timeline.

Did this huge amount

you saw our blackout page asking if you could imagine a world without free knowledge.

of exposure of SOPA help lead to its shelving in the House?

2006 by Melinda Putz from A Teachers Guide to the Multigenre Research Project. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

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