{"id":436,"date":"2012-01-17T11:05:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T16:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/?p=436"},"modified":"2012-01-18T01:23:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T06:23:16","slug":"wednesday-web-blackouts-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/2012\/01\/17\/wednesday-web-blackouts-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Web Blackouts: Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Wednesday January 18th <\/strong>many of your favorite websites&#8211;Wikipedia, the Internet Archive, Reddit, Boing Boing and more&#8211;will be blacked out for a day to protest two pending pieces of legislation now before the Congress of the United States: the <em>Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)<\/em> in the U.S. House of Representatives, and <em>PROTECTIP (PIPA)<\/em> in the U.S. Senate. If passed, this legislation will harm the free and open Internet, stifle online innovation and creativity, and bring about new tools for censorship of international websites inside the United States. They appear to violate provisions of the <a title=\"U.S. Constitution\" href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/exhibits\/charters\/constitution_transcript.html\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Constitution<\/a> by operating with a presumption of guilt and denial of due process, and could seriously harm the integrity of the Internet Domain Name System, particularly ongoing efforts to implement <a title=\"DNSSEC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dnssec.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">DNSSEC<\/a>.\u00a0 For more information about this legislation please see the <a title=\"Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0 <a title=\"SOPA and PIPA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/issues\/coica-internet-censorship-and-copyright-bill\" target=\"_blank\">site\u00a0<\/a> and <em>please<\/em> contact your <a href=\"https:\/\/action.eff.org\/o\/9042\/p\/dia\/action\/public\/?action_KEY=8336\" target=\"_blank\">Senators and Representative to make your opinion heard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday January 18th many of your favorite websites&#8211;Wikipedia, the Internet Archive, Reddit, Boing Boing and more&#8211;will be blacked out for a day to protest two pending pieces of legislation now before the Congress of the United States: the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and PROTECTIP (PIPA) in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3869,3904],"tags":[3968,3898],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-stuff-for-students","tag-innovation","tag-security-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}