Unless you’ve been hiding in your IP-hidden digital cave for the last few weeks, you’re probably aware that the Internet is currently rife with protests for SOPA, the Stop Online Privacy Act. Critics from Silicon Valley and various technology companies around the world blacked out their sites to protest the bill, which effectively would give the American government a kill-switch to shut down websites that have pirated content.
So how has the social web been responding?
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We recently covered Reddit’s co-founder Alexis Ohanian appearing on Bloomberg TV to protest SOPA and explain how if SOPA existed years ago, Reddit wouldn’t be able to get itself off the ground. Well, they’re taking it a step further. Reddit will be completely blacking out the site as Alexis heads to Congress to protest the bill.
Everyone is talking about the Egyptian Internet blackout, the blocking of Facebook and Twitter and the subsequent launch of Google and Twitter’s Speak-to-Tweet technology. But while everyone focuses on Facebook and Twitter, protesters are taking to YouTube as well.
