{"id":14099,"date":"2012-01-18T11:46:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T17:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=14099"},"modified":"2012-01-18T11:46:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T17:46:28","slug":"sopa-pipa-blackout-sustainablog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/sopa-pipa-blackout-sustainablog\/","title":{"rendered":"sustainablog Stands with the SOPA\/PIPA Blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14100\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14100\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wikipedia-blackout.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14100\" title=\"wikipedia blackout\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wikipedia-blackout.jpg\" alt=\"wikipedia's blacked out homepage in protest of sopa\/pipa legislation\" width=\"500\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wikipedia-blackout.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wikipedia-blackout-300x126.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia&#39;s &quot;dark&quot; home page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No, we haven&#8217;t gone dark today like some of the bigger players online. But we do stand with Wikipedia, Google, Reddit, and other sites, large and small, that have decided to shut down for the day (in part, or in full) to protest <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act\">SOPA\/PIPA legislation<\/a> currently pending in the US House of Representatives and Senate. Our colleague Zach Shahan did a very nice job of explaining what&#8217;s up over at Planetsave, so I&#8217;m going to hand off the mike (so to speak) to him&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"rpuEmbedCode\"><!--rpuEmbedStart--><script src=\"http:\/\/1.rp-api.com\/rjs\/repost-article.js?2\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"rpuArticle rpuRepost-8d9ff6d40934dd81629fbaab59e5f841-top rpuJump-undefined\" style=\"margin:0;padding:0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s.tt\/15hMo\" class=\"rpuTitle\">SOPA Blackout: Threat to Your Internet Has Wikipedia, Google, reddit, &#038; More Taking Action<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/s.tt\/15hMo\" class=\"rpuHost\">Planetsave<\/a>)<\/div>\n<p><!-- put the \"tease\", \"jump\" or \"more\" break here --><!--more--><!--break--><\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none;\" class=\"rpuKeywords\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"rpuArticle rpuRepostMain rpuRepost-8d9ff6d40934dd81629fbaab59e5f841-bottom\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- How to customize this embed: http:\/\/www.repost.us\/article-preview\/#!shash=8d9ff6d40934dd81629fbaab59e5f841 --><!--rpuEmbedEnd--><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, we haven&#8217;t gone dark today like some of the bigger players online. But we do stand with Wikipedia, Google, Reddit, and other sites, large and small, that have decided to shut down for the day (in part, or in full) to protest SOPA\/PIPA legislation currently pending in the US House of Representatives and Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":14100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,7],"tags":[50,114,2674,5586,5587],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SOPA\/PIPA Blackout<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"sustainablog hasn&#039;t gone dark today (1\/18\/2012), but we do stand with sites like Google &amp; Wikipedia that have shut down to protest SOPA\/PIPA legislation.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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