As protest against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act) which, in our humble opinion, is bad legislation essentially censoring the internet for Americans, Wikipedia will go dark on Wednesday January 18, 2012. There is similar legislation in other countries.

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout

Many people will yawn and say “so what?”. Maybe you never use Wikipedia. Well, it’s estimated that 25 million people do every day so imagine you’re a college student with a major paper due the next day.

What if Google, Facebook, YouTube, etc. decided to do the same thing… what if they were forced to do to stringent legislation?

Happy computing!