{"id":984,"date":"2012-01-18T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/01\/18\/websites-black-out-to-protest-sopa-and-pipa\/"},"modified":"2012-01-18T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T02:23:00","slug":"websites-black-out-to-protest-sopa-and-pipa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/01\/18\/websites-black-out-to-protest-sopa-and-pipa\/","title":{"rendered":"Websites black out to protest SOPA and PIPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tMany websites are <a href=\"http:\/\/sopastrike.com\/strike\/\">blacked out today<\/a> to protest proposed U.S. legislation that threatens internet freedom: the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). From personal blogs to Wikipedia, sites all over the web are asking you to <a href=\"http:\/\/sopastrike.com\/strike\/\">help stop this dangerous legislation<\/a> from being passed. Watch the video below to learn how this legislation will affect internet freedom and to take action go to <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress.org<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%\">Excerpted from <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/31100268\">PROTECT IP \/ SOPA Breaks The Internet<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/fightforthefuture\">Fight for the Future<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many websites are blacked out today to protest proposed U.S. legislation that threatens internet freedom: the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). From personal blogs to Wikipedia, sites all over the web are asking you to help stop this dangerous legislation from being passed. Watch the video below to learn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}