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Wikipedia shutting down, midnight Washington DC time for 24 hours on Wednesday to protest against SOPA

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Wikipedia shutting down, midnight Washington DC time for 24 hours on Wednesday to protest against SOPAToday, founder of the non-profit behind information archive Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, announced that the site will go dark for 24 hours on Wednesday in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

The tweets that confirms the news are embedded below:

 

via: TheNextWeb

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