Protest against SOPA takes Reddit and Wikipedia into the fold, Google and Facebook remain undecided – Part 1

An avalanche is in the making of, as many online businesses and communities are joining the protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The act, that is solely targeted at the censorship of the content on the internet that is ‘offensive’ to the media and governments.

It started in the US but now many other countries have joined this heinous act that will do nothing but to intrude the privacy of internet users and bloggers.

The SOPA is at the verge of the being accepted in the US senate, the gateway to any reforms on the usage of internet; and most part of the web is managed, populated and operated by US-based organizations.

However, many websites and e-commerce companies have joined the protest against this act, either by promoting campaign against SOPA on their websites with banners and stop signs or by taking down their URLs all together. Reddit, an online website, recently took the initiative with an announcement to take their website off the internet, registering their disapproval of the new regulation.

Many other organizations are pouring in flocks and a date has been set for the protest. With majority agreeing to the objections, most of the protestors will take their websites down on January 18^th, 2012.

Many other websites have agreed to join the clan of protestors; they might not pull the plug on their website like WorkPress, which owns 15 percent of the online content. However, they will be promoting the campaign showing placards on their URLs until this atrocity is over.

Google and Facebook, two of the most powerful online businesses have also been invited to the movement however; they still remain undecided. Google has its reasons. Its employees, on the other hand, have shown some signs of a strategy in the making but it still remains a secret.

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Posted by Usman Khalid on Jan 14 2012. Filed under World. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.