{"id":667,"date":"2012-01-18T11:22:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T16:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/?p=667"},"modified":"2025-03-20T09:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:37:21","slug":"a-powerful-point-about-sopa-and-pipa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/a-powerful-point-about-sopa-and-pipa\/","title":{"rendered":"A Powerful Point about SOPA and PIPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You hear everybody talking about the dangers of SOPA and PIPA, but <a href=\"http:\/\/Wikipedia.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a> has taken it a step further and gives us all a vivid example of what the internet could look like if SOPA and PIPA are enacted. Wikipedia has shut down the english language encyclopedia for a 24 hour period.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2012-01-18-at-11.08.34-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-668 aligncenter\" title=\"Wikipedia Shuts down for a day to protest SOPA and PIPA\" src=\"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2012-01-18-at-11.08.34-AM-300x161.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2012-01-18-at-11.08.34-AM-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2012-01-18-at-11.08.34-AM-150x80.png 150w, https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2012-01-18-at-11.08.34-AM-550x296.png 550w, https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2012-01-18-at-11.08.34-AM.png 971w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I never realized how much I use Wikipedia until today. Makes me think I really should get around to donating to the Wikipedia project.<\/p>\n<p>Wow. WordPress, too! Let&#8217;s hope these acts get the point across and stop SOPA and PIPA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2012-01-18-at-11.46.25-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-673 aligncenter\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-01-18 at 11.46.25 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2012-01-18-at-11.46.25-AM-300x131.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2012-01-18-at-11.46.25-AM-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2012-01-18-at-11.46.25-AM-150x65.png 150w, https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2012-01-18-at-11.46.25-AM-550x241.png 550w, https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2012-01-18-at-11.46.25-AM.png 856w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You hear everybody talking about the dangers of SOPA and PIPA, but Wikipedia has taken it a step further and gives us all a vivid example of what the internet could look like if SOPA and PIPA are enacted. Wikipedia has shut down the english language encyclopedia for a 24 hour period. I never realized &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"A Powerful Point about SOPA and PIPA\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/a-powerful-point-about-sopa-and-pipa\/#more-667\" aria-label=\"Read more about A Powerful Point about SOPA and PIPA\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1655,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/1655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}