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Wikipedia Blackout Draws Students’ Attention to SOPA, PIPA

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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at OSU chapter.



This past Wednesday, Jan. 18, Wikipedia, Craigslist, and many other popular websites were “blacked out” for 24 hours to protest bills SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (PROTECT IP Act).  The efforts succeeded in the pushing back of a committee hearing on SOPA and a planned Jan. 24 vote on PIPA.  SOPA and PIPA have been recognized as significant threats to free expression on the Internet; to learn more, visit Wikipedia’s article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more

Source: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout

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Kali Grant is the founding Editor-in-Chief and Campus Correspondent for the OSU chapter of Her Campus. Kali is pursuing a B.A. in Public Affairs at the John Glenn School with a minor in Communication and is excited to be in her senior year. Kali is a student research assistant at the Glenn School and is a proud member of the Zeta Alpha chapter of Chi Omega. Kali has spent her collegiate summers interning with The Institute on Women and The Salvation Army and studying Spanish in Buenos Aires, Argentina. When she’s not daydreaming about returning to New Orleans and San Francisco, Kali loves drinking coffee, talking about cats and politics, and trying out questionable vegetarian recipes.