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Pictures: How the internet went black for SOPA

Major websites censored... or drop off the internet altogether.

on Jan 19 2012 7:43AM

Users of Mozilla's Google landing page were today greeted with a blackened page and a censored Firefox logo.

The 24-hour shutdown of Wikipedia has been one of the most talked-about in the anti-SOPA protests. It has spawned a number of articles suggesting alternative information sources.

News aggregator Reddit appears with a frowning logo beside a note saying, 'Reddit is down'.

Group blog BoingBoing joins the anti-SOPA protest with a 503 error: "Service intentionally unavailable".

The landing site for blogging engine WordPress appears with all text and images "censored" in protest against SOPA legislation.

Photo site Flickr did things slightly differently, giving users an option to "darken" their photos today. Stumbling on a darkened image presents this landing page, which can be switched off, unlike some other websites participating in today's protest.

Greenpeace's website appears completely black. However, the user's mouse acts as a torchlight, highlighting the organisation's "Stop SOPA message".

Online classified service Craigslist urges "corporate paymasters" to keep their "clammy hands off the Internet".

Users of Mozilla's Google landing page were today greeted with a blackened page and a censored Firefox logo.

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