The merger will take place at noon on Wednesday to protest against the laws SOUP PIPA and, when taken as a threat to the business community in New York. Media and Public Radio NPR, The Washington Post and The Guardian have created an initiative to help users who want to search the online encyclopedia during the blackout. Through their Twitter account, answering questions of messages with the keyword # altwiki. Given that Wikipedia has 25 million users per day, the most ambitious project to replace. The authoritative portal Oreilly, meanwhile, took his statement of support for Wikipedia to support a solution to piracy to reach the market itself, not government intervention. The distance between these two arguments is that between supporters and opponents SOUP dela law. “‘Piracy’ The term implies that the presence of substantial unauthorized copies of protected content is the result of an attempt to capture a market legal wrongdoing. But history has shown us that this is mainly the result of market failure.” For the expert Dan Gillmor, the objective of these laws is clear: “remove the tools to centralize control the masses and what promised to be the means of communication and open collaboration ever invented,” he wrote in The Guardian. Opponents of the laws and PIPA SOPA have on their side for the Obama administration, which last Friday said that it would reject any laws that threaten the dynamism and innovation on the Internet.

The support of the White House, however, has not yet been demonstrated definitivo.Los legislators of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, where the law has been proposed SOPA and debate during which unleashed the most controversial sections of the law, not a step back in time . “The blackout is just a publicity stunt,” he said yesterday, Republican Lamar Smith. The main sponsor of the legislation announced it resume negotiations for the final in February, despite the fact that last week froze the negotiations to find common ground between supporters and detractors. The American former Sen. Chris Dodd, now leader of one of the most powerful film industry lobby, said in a statement (PDF) that the protests taking place this Wednesday, “is an abuse of power by the freedoms they enjoy these companies in the market today. ” The ‘American Association of Cinema (MPAA, for its acronym in English) argues that’ blackout ‘is “a dangerous and worrying development since the platforms that function as the information will be removing data support the intent to induce the users based on their interests. “Dodd, in defense of freedom of access to information for citizens, protested against turning against the exercise of freedom of expression of dozens of business online.The site of the Association of Internet users in Spain also issued a message against the law of the United States black, the objectives associated with the Spanish law known Sinde. Victor Domingo, the association, told Efe that about 100 sites in Spain have joined the “black out”, including Voolive.net, Gurusblog, Slashdot blog or IE Business School professor and expert Enrique Dans.

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