{"id":3575,"date":"2012-01-18T07:54:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T14:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eatinoc.com\/?p=3575"},"modified":"2014-05-22T11:00:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:00:48","slug":"internet-blackout-day-on-january-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/general-news\/internet-blackout-day-on-january-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Blackout Day on January 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eat in OC will be joining thousands of other websites around the United States and the world in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sopastrike.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">protest against Senate Bill 968: the Protect IP Act<\/a>\u00a0also known as SOPA. If this bill is passed it will jeopardize internet freedom and shift the power of the independent web into the hands of corporations. We must stop it.<\/p>\n<p>On January 18, 2012 many sites around the web \u2014 from small personal blogs to\u00a0internet institutions like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mozilla.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mozilla<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative\/Action\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.reddit.com\/2012\/01\/stopped-they-must-be-on-this-all.html\" target=\"_blank\">reddit<\/a><wbr>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/benhuh\/status\/157538541155516416\" target=\"_blank\">I Can Has Cheezburger?<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 will be going dark in protest and to drive their visitors to sites like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/americancensorship.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">americancensorship.org<\/a>\u00a0to take action and help fight the passage of the Protect IP Act. So will WordPress.org.<\/wbr><\/p>\n<p>If you want to join the protest by blacking out your WordPress site or applying a ribbon, there is now a variety of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/tags\/sopa\" target=\"_blank\">blackout plugins in the WordPress.org plugins directory<\/a>. While joining the protest in this manner is laudable, please don\u2019t forget to also make those phone calls to U.S. Senators \u2014 they\u2019re the ones with the voting power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blackout the Internet on January 18th to prevent it from being blacked out by Corporations.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eat in OC will be joining thousands of other websites around the United States and the world in\u00a0protest against Senate Bill 968: the Protect IP Act\u00a0also known as SOPA. If this bill is passed it will jeopardize internet freedom and shift the power of the independent web into the hands of corporations. We must stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[113,128,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-3575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general-news","7":"tag-oped","8":"tag-site-news","9":"tag-stay-away","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgNGWN-VF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4084,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions\/4084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}