SOPA Act

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If you can’t seem to load a Wikipedia page on January 18, there is not something wrong with your computer.

Wikipedia president Jimmy Wales took to his Twitter to announce that his website will join the ‘internet blackout’ on January 18 along with Reddit and many other sites on the world wide web. The blackout is in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA).

The bills, which threaten the infrastructure of the internet as we know it, have sparked controversy over their constitutionality. Popular sites that depend on the freedom of the internet, Reddit and Wikipedia, have been the leaders in a movement against the bills.

At midnight EST, Wikipedia (English) will go black for 24 hours. Wales is using his internet encyclopedia site to bring attention to PIPA and SOPA and rally more opposition.

Listen to Wales, kids, and do your homework now. An entire day without the source of just about everything seems unfathomable, but if it brings more attention to these unlawful bills, we’re behind it 100 percent.

The White House announced their opposition to the bills last week. Obama said that he is skeptical about the bills. Something tells me SOPA and PIPA are going to have a difficult time passing in the U.S.

To find out what other sites are blacking out on January 18, click here.