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The SOPA/PIPA Blackout: Two Ecologies of Discussion

Submitted by Ty Alyea on Tue, 2012-01-24 01:08
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As we discussed yesterday, January 18's SOPA "blackout" generated a massive reaction that catalyzed a collapse in legislative support for the Congressional Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Senate's Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA).  Today, I will explore how some analysts are currently using images to depict SOPA's notoriety on the web during the blackout and, additionally, chart out SOPA/PIPA's relative obscurity in the realm of primetime television news before the blackout.
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SOPA and PIPA; Or, If It Weren't For The Internet, We Would Have No Idea What Was Going On

Submitted by Marjorie Foley on Sun, 2012-01-22 15:31

Image Credit: Wikipedia

If you didn't see this image last week, you may have been hiding under a rock. Wikipedia reports that 162 million people viewed this image on January 18 as a result of their protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act, which involved blocking all English-language content on the website. As a result of the blackout, 8 million people looked up their representatives in Congress, and a unknown number of people tweeted amusing and seeemingly illiterate things. (Mildly NSFW content in full post.)

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