Reddit Protests SOPA by Shutting Down for 12 Hours Next Wednesday

We recently covered Reddit’s co-founder Alexis Ohanian appearing on Bloomberg TV to protest SOPA and explain how if SOPA existed years ago, Reddit wouldn’t be able to get itself off the ground.  Well, they’re taking it a step further.  Reddit will be completely blacking out the site as Alexis heads to Congress to protest the bill.

The point of the blackout is to raise awareness of the issue and get people pounding the pavement to shut down the SOPA bill, which enables a government body to shut down sites that are hosting illegal, pirated content — even if the company has nothing to do with it and users uploaded the content.

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