A week from today, one of the most popular websites on the internet will go dark. Reddit, the current king of all social media sites due to its massive, influential community and ability to send out hundreds of thousands of hits to a single post, is doing its part to help stop internet censorship law SOPA with a display of force.
The decision to black out the site for a period of 12 hours next Wednesday comes in the wake of the announcement that Reddit co-founder Alexis “kn0thing” Ohanian is heading to Congress to testify on behalf of the tech community. He’s of the firm position that SOPA could potentially “obliterate” the entire tech industry, a position I strongly agree with.
Read more on Forbes (Link tweeted by @Alien1it)
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