yesterday i got surprised while loading wikipedia page for shanghai (2010 - movie starred jhon cussack, gong li, chow yun fat and watanabe ken), after the page 100% loaded the article of shanghai was changed into this black out massage from wikipediawikipedia blackout as protest for
The English Wikipedia blackout was a shutdown of the English Wikipedia for 24 hours on January 18–19, 2012, during which all articles could still be accessed. In place of articles, the site, unless you disabled javascript or pressed escape while loading pages, showed only a message opposing the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), legislation being proposed in the United States Congress.quote from wikipedia blackout protest
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) are bills that were introduced into the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate in the last quarter of 2011. The two bills, though different means, are designed to provide legal mechanisms for copyright holders, such as music and movie studios, to combat digital piracy that occurs on non-United States websites.
wikipedia is the biggest encyclopedia in human history and it can be accessed easily and free. i merely could get any information i want from wikipedia. although i don't really trust the information 100% knowing that anyone who has computer can upload any information to wikipedia but still if we are about to understand one thing, wikipedia at least will provide us a glimpse of the information we need
i don't used information from wikipedia for my lesson plans, for those i trust textbooks and/or recognized-proven website of some university professors teaching the same subject
but i do need wikipedia for my amusement life such as movies. i always read wikipedia after i watch some movies. although i have watched them i need to understand more about the movie, the receptions, the other works of casts etc
and if i like the cast i will find out more about them, what are their other movies and the glimpse of their real private life
if i stumble to some strange quotes or words from movies, i will find them in wikipedia
it is true that i need google more than wikipedia but still wikipedia is one of the website i like the most
photo from wikipedia blackout 2012
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