Wikipedia, Reddit and Wordpress shut down to oppose censorship

[craZy C]

[chad]

Kind of ironic that Wikipedia was asking for donations, then shut down the site because of SOPA?

[mepm]

demonoid, digitalhive, n4g, destructoid, ytmnd, hell even humble bundle all went dark.
there must have been shitloads more aswell.

[dragon xr]

if facebook and google were go do dark for one day or 12 hours, the amount of noise from this would remove these bills from being passed

also this: Official Google Blog: Don't censor the web

[Milenko]

I really don't understand what bringing down these sites is going to achieve.

[Aegis]

awareness. it's already worked with a few senators