Reddit website closes January 18 from 8:00 to 20:00 in protest against SOPA
Reddit's social news site continues the war against SOPA, in which, surprisingly, wins victory after victory. The organized boycott against GoDaddy was successful and forced the world's largest registrar of domain names to withdraw its signature on the bill. Activity on the / r / sopa branch spawned several related websites against SOPA and attracted media attention. As a result, by December 2011, traffic on Reddit has grown to 2.07 billion page views per month (twice as much as at the beginning of the year ).
On January 18, Reddit is going to strike another blow, and at the same time prove that it is not attendance that is the main thing for them, but justice. They literally sacrifice themselves for the sake of a just cause. On January 18 from 8 to 20 hours (1300–0100 UTC) the site will be closed . An informational message will be hung on the stub, that the site is closed in protest against SOPA, and a window for live video broadcast from the US House of Representatives meeting room will be posted.
On January 18, in the House of Representatives, technical experts and Internet entrepreneurs will be heard in one of the sections of SOPA, namely regarding the blocking of the DNS and search results . Reddit co-founder Alexis "kn0thing" Ohanian is among the invitees.
On January 18, Reddit is going to strike another blow, and at the same time prove that it is not attendance that is the main thing for them, but justice. They literally sacrifice themselves for the sake of a just cause. On January 18 from 8 to 20 hours (1300–0100 UTC) the site will be closed . An informational message will be hung on the stub, that the site is closed in protest against SOPA, and a window for live video broadcast from the US House of Representatives meeting room will be posted.
On January 18, in the House of Representatives, technical experts and Internet entrepreneurs will be heard in one of the sections of SOPA, namely regarding the blocking of the DNS and search results . Reddit co-founder Alexis "kn0thing" Ohanian is among the invitees.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/136013/
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