On Friday, the Internet claimed a temporary but important victory over a controversial Congress bill. Many feel it threatens the free flow of information across the Internet despite its original stated intent.
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Many websites joined Wikipedia Wednesday in their efforts to protest against two anti-piracy bills: the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). Wikipedia blacked out its site for the entire day, and other sites took actions of their own.
In protest of the pending pieces of anti-piracy legislation going through Congress, Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that often serves as a database for entertainment information, was blacked out from public usage Wednesday. Other entertainment sites participating in the protest included Google, Reddit and Boing Boing.