Tomorrow, on Wednesday Jan 18, Wikipedia will hold a blackout to protest
the SOPA/PIPA legislation in Congress that poses a serious threat to the
open Internet:**
**http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout
More locally, on Wednesday from 12:30-2 PM, the NY Tech Meetup is hosting a
'Rally for the Future of Tech' in front of 780 Third Ave, at 49th street,
in Manhattan:
http://nytm.org/sos/
These speakers have been confirmed for the rally: Clay Shirky, Alexis
Ohanian, Scott Heiferman, John Perry Barlow, Andrew McLaughlin, Eli
Pariser, Tim Karr, and David Segal.
Bring a sign on why Wikipedia and similar projects need an open Internet to
thrive, and maybe we can also find each other, and go get lunch as a
wiki-group afterward.
Also, I'd like to welcome everyone of our upcoming Wiki-Conference at NYU
on Jan 28, where SOPA certainly promises to be a hot topic:
http://bit.ly/wikiday2012
**Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Wikimedia NYC