Wave of Dissent

Launched a large-scale campaign against the anti-piracy legislation Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA)

The action was supported Web company Google, which offers Internet users to sign a petition against the SOPA and PIPA.

In protest, English-language Wikipedia (Wikipedia) on the day stopped working. Try to get to any article - and you will see the following message: "For more than a decade we have spent millions of hours to create the largest encyclopedia in human history. The U.S. Congress is considering bills that could cause irreparable harm to the free and open Internet."

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg expressed his views on the notorious anti-piracy laws SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and Protect IP Act (PIPA). "We can not allow badly designed bills to prevent the development of Internet," - he wrote on his page at social networks.

«Facebook is opposed to SOPA and PIPA, and we will continue to oppose any laws that are harmful to the Internet," - said Mark Zuckerberg. He added that the World Wide Web has become a powerful tool for the unification of the world.

The founder of the world's largest social networks said that the world today than ever in need of political leaders that support the Internet. Such people are able to understand the pernicious SOPA and PIPA, as well as listen to the compromise proposals, I'm sure Mark Zuckerberg.

After yesterday's massive internet campaign against the controversial bills, many congressmen have changed their views on the SOPA and PIPA. Some of them called on to refine the proposals, and others do decide to refuse to accept the anti-piracy laws.