Reddit Announces Blackout to Protest SOPA of the Day: The admins of Reddit have taken note of the community’s opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act, and they’re joining the fight by blacking out the entire site for a day of protest.
On January 18th, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. EST, Reddit will be replaced with a message explaining how SOPA would shut down sites like Reddit, and links Redditors can use to take action against the legislation themselves.
They’ll also be running a live stream of the House hearing on SOPA, where tech industry luminaries, including Reddit founder Alexis “kn0thing” Ohanian, will be testifying against the act.
“We’re not taking this action lightly,” the admins wrote in a post on the official Reddit blog, “We wouldn’t do this if we didn’t believe this legislation and the forces behind it were a serious threat to reddit and the Internet as we know it.”
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