Monday marks four years (hard to believe) since the PIPA protests. Should we post the attached photo with the straight-forward verbiage:
Facebook:
On this day in 2012, English-language Wikipedia sites joined other Internet sites in protesting the PIPA and SOPA legislation by staging a "blackout" of service for 24 hours. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act#Companies_and_organizations
Twitter:
On this day in 2012, English-language Wikipedia sites blacked out for 24 hours to protest PIPA and SOPA legislation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act#Companies_and_organizations
Welcome your thoughts. It seems to me its an important part of our history, but I wasn't here. (At Storify we stayed up because many wanted our service to help chronicle the protests.)
Jeff Elder Digital communications manager Wikimedia Foundation 704-650-4130 @jeffelder https://twitter.com/JeffElder @wikipedia https://twitter.com/wikipedia The Wikimedia blog https://blog.wikimedia.org/
