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Today, Wikipedia is down, BoingBoing is down, Reddit will be down in 6 hours, Ars Technica is going SOPA-only in their reports for today, even Wordpress has its own gig, similar to the one Tumblr did a few months back. All in protest of a legislation working its way through the US congress. And yes, I’m in support of their cause, even if I’m living in a country half a world away.
Why? Most of the web is based in the US, and these websites, many of which I use fairly often, will be very negatively affected by the ongoing developments there. Furthermore, since the US is the world’s foremost power, the success of the SOPA will result in a cascade of similarly worded legislation in all other countries, negatively affecting innovation across the world. Thus, I stand in solidarity with these websites in protest, and fervently hope that such a closed future will never come into fruition.
(via afightbetweentheblue)
