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Major Websites to Blackout This Week in SOPA Protest

on Web Review, 17 January 2012

In Today’s Web News…SOPA and the Protect IP act continue to dominate headlines with the news that Wikipedia, Mozilla and Reddit are all joining a black out in protest of SOPA and related bills that are considered to threaten the internet as we know it.  Read about these proposed plans as well as why Adam Curry believes us to be missing the point.

In other news read about Steve Wozniak’s remarks that stirred the now-familiar iOS vs Android debate and why the World Bank is now counting on Google Data from Maps.

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