{"id":23356,"date":"2012-01-14T20:44:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T15:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=23356"},"modified":"2020-04-19T12:01:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T06:31:38","slug":"stop-sopa-blackout-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2012\/01\/stop-sopa-blackout-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop SOPA Blackout Day on January 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will the world&#8217;s top websites blackout on the\u00a0<strong>Stop SOPA Blackout Day<\/strong>\u00a0on January 18th from 8am\u20138pm EST (1300\u20130100 UTC) and join the Reddit blackout. As news about the SOPA Blackout day spreads, many websites are planning to join in the movement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23362\" title=\"stop-sopa-pipa\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/stop-sopa-pipa.png\" alt=\"stop sopa pipa\" width=\"400\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/stop-sopa-pipa.png 400w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/stop-sopa-pipa-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/stop-sopa-pipa-50x25.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of buzz as the US government works on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SOPA<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Stop Online Piracy Act\u00a0and its sister bill in the Senate, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PROTECT_IP_Act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PIPA<\/a> (Protect IP Act). So as the government readies to pass the bills, why is the Internet and top websites worried over these laws governing online piracy and website blockage. The video below\u00a0is a good explanation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"PROTECT IP \/ SOPA Breaks The Internet\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/31100268?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>Stop SOPA Blackout Day<\/h3>\n<p>As Reddit Blackout news spreads, more websites are gearing up to join in and support solidarity for the cause. I checked that many <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/tags\/sopa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WordPress plugins<\/a> have been developed which will put up PIPA \/ SOPA protest messages on your site, or redirects users or make your site unavailable also for the period of the SOPA blackout day. You can visit\u00a0Stop American Censorship\u00a0for more information on how this affects your rights, privacy and \u00a0how you can help.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techland.time.com\/2012\/01\/05\/sopa-what-if-google-facebook-and-twitter-went-offline-in-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lot<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/technology\/comments\/oce5g\/reddits_sopa_blackout_admirable_but_google_and\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debate<\/a> is raging if Google, Facebook or Twitter will join the SOPA Blackout day, which will surely make a big impact.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"Reddit SOPA Blackout - Will Google, Facebook Join?\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dUYWsZcuBgo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Will your site join the SOPA blackout day? [Image Credit to <a href=\"https:\/\/yalelawtech.org\/2011\/12\/17\/final-project-stop-sopa-at-yale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Yale Law and Tech<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update January 18:<\/strong> The Anti SOPA protests have started and some of the world&#8217;s most popular sites have gone dark to support the cause.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23419\" title=\"wikipedia-blackout\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/wikipedia-blackout.jpg\" alt=\"wikipedia blackout\" width=\"400\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/wikipedia-blackout.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/wikipedia-blackout-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/wikipedia-blackout-50x25.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23420\" title=\"wordpress-blackout\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/wordpress-blackout.png\" alt=\"wordpress blackout\" width=\"400\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/wordpress-blackout.png 400w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/wordpress-blackout-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/wordpress-blackout-50x25.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will the world&#8217;s top websites blackout on the\u00a0Stop SOPA Blackout Day\u00a0on January 18th from 8am\u20138pm EST (1300\u20130100 UTC) and join&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}