{"id":2199,"date":"2012-01-17T23:18:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T23:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/?p=2199"},"modified":"2021-06-04T12:00:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:00:04","slug":"internet-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2012\/01\/internet-blackout\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Blackout Day on January 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress.org is officially joining the <a href=\"http:\/\/sopastrike.com\/\">protest against Senate Bill 968: the Protect IP Act<\/a> that is coming before the U.S. Senate next week. As I wrote in <a title=\"Help Stop SOPA\/PIPA\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2012\/01\/help-stop-sopa-pipa\/\">my post a week ago<\/a>, if this bill is passed it will jeopardize internet freedom and shift the power of the independent web into the hands of corporations. We must stop it.<\/p>\n<p>On January 18, 2012 many sites around the web &#8212; from small personal blogs to\u00a0internet institutions like <a href=\"http:\/\/Mozilla.org\">Mozilla<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative\/Action\">Wikipedia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.reddit.com\/2012\/01\/stopped-they-must-be-on-this-all.html\">reddit<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/benhuh\/status\/157538541155516416\">I Can Has Cheezburger?<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; will be going dark in protest and to drive their visitors to sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/americancensorship.org\">americancensorship.org<\/a> to take action and help fight the passage of the Protect IP Act. So will WordPress.org.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to join the protest by blacking out your WordPress site or applying a ribbon, there is now a variety of <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/tags\/sopa\">blackout plugins in the WordPress.org plugins directory<\/a>. While joining the protest in this manner is laudable, please don&#8217;t forget to also make those phone calls to U.S. Senators &#8212; they&#8217;re the ones with the voting power.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/tags\/sopa\">Get a protest plugin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/americancensorship.org\">Take action at americancensorship.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress.org is officially joining the protest against Senate Bill 968: the Protect IP Act that is coming before the U.S. Senate next week. As I wrote in my post a week ago, if this bill is passed it will jeopardize internet freedom and shift the power of the independent web into the hands of corporations. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZhYe-zt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}