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# Protesting SOPA and PIPA
- URL: https://kudithipudi.org/protesting-sopa-and-pipa/
- Published: 2012-01-18T14:40:06.000Z
- Updated: 2012-01-18T14:40:06.000Z
- Description: Unless you are living under a rock or outside the US :).. you probably heard about the crazy legislation that the US congress and senates are...
- Author: admin
- Tags: Politics, Technology, Uncategorized, Web, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 02:32

Unless you are living under a rock or outside the US :).. you probably heard about the crazy legislation that the US congress and senates are proposing to help protect content creators (AKA Hollywood) from privacy. While I personally don’t have any issues with giving protection to content creators, it should not be at the cost of freedom for the rest of the world. Go to http://americancensorship.org/ to get more information about why this proposed legislation are bad.

Today (1/18/2012) has been designated as “Protest SOPA/PIPA day” by the technology world. I believe in the old adage, put your money where your mouth is :).. so I checked on the [top 25 US sites (according to Alexa)](http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/US?ref=kudithipudi.org) to see how many of them are supporting this protest in a visible manner. Only 4 out of the 25 sites, put visible content on their websites regarding the protest. I think Google’s message was the most effective, where they did not reduce the functionality of the website, but provided a lot of visibility to the protest. I know which companies I am going to support/use moving forward :). I was very happy to see that three of the sites that I use on a regular basis (google, amazon and wikipedia) are supporting this protest. Here are screenshots of the protest from the the 4 sites that are in the top 25 visited sites in the US

[Google.com](http://www.google.com/?ref=kudithipudi.org)

![](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7165/6720168559_0fbc3f4d94_d.jpg "SOPA protest : Google Screenshot")

[Amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com/?ref=kudithipudi.org)

![](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7022/6720168597_b305ddf470_d.jpg "SOPA Protest : Amazon")

[Wikipedia.Org](http://en.wikipedia.org/?ref=kudithipudi.org)

![](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7175/6720168631_9d55692113_d.jpg "SOPA Protest : Wikipedia Screenshot")

[WordPress.com](http://wordpress.com/?ref=kudithipudi.org)

![](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7010/6720168679_ec50524df1_d.jpg "SOPA Protest : WordPress screenshot")

Screenshots of some other sites that I visit on a regular basis and are supporting the protest

[Boingboing.net](http://boingboing.net/?ref=kudithipudi.org)

![](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7009/6720168693_8a373a3361_d.jpg "SOPA Protest : BoingBoing screenshot")

[Wired.com](http://wired.com/?ref=kudithipudi.org)

![](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7006/6720168769_251d6c657d_d.jpg "SOPA Protest : Wired screenshot")

[Arstechnica.com](http://www.arstrechnica.com/?ref=kudithipudi.org)

![](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7019/6720168727_e4d43bd22c_d.jpg "SOPA Protest : Arstechnica screenshot")

[Reddit.com](http://www.reddit.com/?ref=kudithipudi.org)

![](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7158/6720168793_17426a6072_d.jpg "SOPA Protest : Reddit screenshot")

[DuckDuckGo.com](http://www.duckduckgo.com/?ref=kudithipudi.org)

![](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7141/6720168901_50fabef8a7_d.jpg "SOPA Protect : DuckDuckGo")