{"id":26847,"date":"2012-01-18T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=26847"},"modified":"2012-01-18T11:30:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T18:30:08","slug":"the-internet-goes-on-strike-to-protest-sopapipa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/01\/18\/the-internet-goes-on-strike-to-protest-sopapipa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet Goes on Strike to Protest SOPA\/PIPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"\/home\/audio\/2012_01_18_wilson.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"\/home\/audio\/2012_01_18_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/wikipedia-blackout.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/>Users of the internet, attempting to look up information from the world&#8217;s most popular online encyclopedia, will find they can only view their search results for a few seconds today, before their screens are blacked out. Wikipedia pages now read the slogan: &#8220;Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge.&#8221; It goes on to read, &#8220;Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet.&#8221; Urging users to contact their representatives, Wikipedia has joined thousands of other prominent websites in a 24 hour black0ut to protest the House bill, Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, and the accompanying Senate bill, Protect IP Act, or PIPA. Google has joined the protest with a black banner over its logo, and a link saying, &#8220;Tell Congress: Please don&#8217;t censor the web!&#8221; Craigslist.org has blacked out its front page saying &#8220;Corporate paymasters, keep those clammy hands off the internet!&#8221; Today&#8217;s internet protest is considered &#8220;the largest online protest in US history.&#8221; The Senate will begin voting on PIPA on January 24th. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Holmes Wilson, co-founder of Fight for the Future, an advocacy organization against internet censorship<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Listen to our earlier interview with Holmes Wilson on why SOPA and PIPA are dangerous by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-112111\/2011_11_21_wilson.mp3\">clicking here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the Stop Online Piracy Act at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightforthefuture.org\">www.fightforthefuture.org<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americancensorship.org\">www.americancensorship.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users of the internet, attempting to look up information from the world&#8217;s most popular online encyclopedia, will find they can only view their search results for a few seconds today, before their screens are blacked out. Wikipedia pages now read the slogan: &#8220;Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge.&#8221; It goes on to read, &#8220;Right now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}