Wikipedia Blackout: Websites Wikipedia, Reddit, Others Go Dark Wednesday to …

Whatever position you may take on SOPA, or on whether or not sites should black out against SOPA (Yes it has come to this), the issue has reached a boiling point today with sites like Wikipedia and Reddit pledging to blackout on Wednesday in order to

searches on the Internet Tuesday include Wikipedia on news the online encyclopedia will shut down its English-language Web site for 24 hours to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act. Wikipedia, which said its blackout will go into effect Wednesday,

By Debra Cassens Weiss Wikipedia is planning to protest anti-piracy legislation with a 24-hour blackout of its English-language website on Wednesday. The nonprofit that operates the online encyclopedia written by its readers said in a statement that

Wikipedia will blackout Wednesday to protest SOPA | You may need to dust off the old encyclopedia as Wikipedia blacks out Wednesday.

While there have been some previous discussions about whether or not Wikipedia would black out its site to protest SOPA/PIPA — and the community's consensus was to do so — it appeared that they had agreed that the trigger for a black out would be on