Gallery: Sites go dark to protest SOPA
For 24 hours on January 18 (E.S.T.), many sites around the web blacked out their homepages to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act currently before U.S. Congress. We captured some of the more high-profile blackouts, both in New Zealand and abroad.
Harley Ogier | Thursday, January 19 2012For 24 hours on January 18 (E.S.T.), many sites around the web blacked out their homepages to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act currently before U.S. Congress. We captured some of the more high-profile blackouts, both in New Zealand and abroad.
CreativeFreedom.org.nz & Internet New Zealand
Wikipedia (English site only, en.wikipedia.org)
Google.com (When visiting from the U.S. only. New Zealand visitors see the 'Please don't censor the web!' link, but the Google logo appears normal.)
Mozilla Firefox (firefox.com and mozilla.com, not mozilla.org or getthunderbird.com)
WordPress.com (homepage)
WordPress.com (once clicking on a blacked-out blog)
TwitPic.com (only the logo is 'blacked out', while the site continues to operate normally)
Reddit.com
Wired.com
ICanHasCheezburger.com
Electronic frontier foundation (www.eff.org, only the logo is blacked out)
The Oatmeal (theoatmeal.com)
Minecraft.org
Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Fark.com
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