{"id":175,"date":"2012-01-17T14:39:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T21:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/?p=175"},"modified":"2012-01-17T14:39:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T21:39:58","slug":"wikipedia-to-shutdown-occupy-sopa-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wikipedia-to-shutdown-occupy-sopa-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiPedia to Shutdown! Occupy SOPA Protest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wikipedia-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-176\" title=\"wikipedia-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wikipedia-logo-244x300.png\" alt=\"wikipedia-logo\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wikipedia-logo-244x300.png 244w, https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wikipedia-logo.png 489w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a>Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has confirmed that the free online  encyclopedia will shut down on Wednesday, January 18 in protest of the  Stop\u00c2\u00a0Online Privacy Act (<a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/tag\/sopa\/\">SOPA<\/a>) and the Protect IP Act\u00c2\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/newspreview.corp.dig.com\/Technology\/internet-censorship-sopa-pipa-bills-congress-websites-dark\/story?id=15309498\">PIPA<\/a>), two anti-piracy bills that are currently being debated in Congress. Jay Rosen,\u00c2\u00a0professor of journalism\u00c2\u00a0at NYU had posted on Twitter, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wikipedia Will Shut Down on Wednesday to Protest SOPA\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/tnw.co\/xRk6oc\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/WwGxdxZS\" target=\"_blank\">tnw.co\/xRk6oc<\/a> Twitter, Google, Facebook should join in.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d However, this may no longer be true. Reddit, TwitPic, Mozilla and Worpress will join Wikipedia tomorrow and  shut off their sites for 12 hours, while Google will feature a homepage  link stating their opposition to SOPA. Other popular services like  Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and eBay have voiced disapproval of SOPA but will not  take part in the blackout.<\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;\">Read more: <a style=\"color: #003399;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/blogs\/gear-up\/wikipedia-to-shut-down-temporarily-to-protest-online-anti-piracy-legislation-20120117#ixzz1jknWaAQx\">http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/blogs\/gear-up\/wikipedia-to-shut-down-temporarily-to-protest-online-anti-piracy-legislation-20120117#ixzz1jknWaAQx<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;\">also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/arts-post\/post\/wikipedia-blackout-how-to-survive-it\/2012\/01\/17\/gIQALRGd5P_blog.html\">How\u00c2\u00a0 To Survive the Blackout<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has confirmed that the free online encyclopedia will shut down on Wednesday, January 18 in protest of the Stop\u00c2\u00a0Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act\u00c2\u00a0(PIPA), two anti-piracy bills that are currently being debated in Congress. Jay Rosen,\u00c2\u00a0professor of journalism\u00c2\u00a0at NYU had posted on Twitter, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wikipedia Will Shut Down on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,53,4],"tags":[78,274,269,76,79,73,74,77,75,61,72,265],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}