at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Request_for_Comment:_SOPA...
A few months ago, the Italian Wikipedia community made a decision to blank all of Italian Wikipedia for a short period in order to protest a law which would infringe on their editorial independence. The Italian Parliament backed down immediately. As Wikipedians may or may not be aware, a much worse law going under the misleading title of "Stop Online Piracy Acthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act' is working its way through Congress on a bit of a fast track. I may be attending a meeting at the White House on Monday (pending confirmation on a couple of fronts) along with executives from many other top Internet firms, and I thought this would be a good time to take a quick reading of the community feeling on this issue. My own view is that a community strike was very powerful and successful in Italy and could be even more powerful in this case. There are obviously many questions about whether the strike should be geotargetted (US-only), etc. (One possible view is that because the law would seriously impact the functioning of Wikipedia for everyone, a global strike of at least the English Wikipedia would put the maximum pressure on the US government.) At the same time, it's of course a very very big deal to do something like this, it is unprecedented for English Wikipedia. — Preceding unsignedhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signaturescomment added by Jimbo Wales http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales (*talk* • contribshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jimbo_Wales) 07:42, 10 December 2011
Best - sorry if this is not of relevance for this list, Bishakha