If you go to the English version of Wikipedia this Wednesday, you’ll find that they have ‘gone dark’ in protest of proposed federal legislation that in the name of stopping on-line piracy would put in place a set of tools that many fear would result in, among other bad things, internet censorship. While we won’t be making our website go dark in solidarity, it seemed that the least we could do would be to provide visibility to this important protest of legislation that many of us find deeply troubling.
More readings on the topic can be found at http://www.diigo.com/list/michaelroy/sopa .
See also The Real SOPA Battle: Innovators vs. Goliath from the Harvard Business Review