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Geist: The day the Internet fought back

Posted by beirwin on · 4 comments
thestar.com; By Michael Geist 		Mail this story
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Last week’s Wikipedia-led blackout in protest of U.S. copyright legislation called the Stop Online Piracy Act is being hailed by some as the Internet Spring, the day that millions fought back against restrictive legislative proposals that posed a serious threat to an open Internet.

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beirwin Story submitter ·
Yep. For those of us in northern climes & only 1 month or so into winter, you gotta dream of spring! :-)
jezuch ·
This winter, I was mostly dreaming of winter. Well, it finally came, but for a time it looked like this would be summer all year long...
mbaehrlxer ·
chinese newyear, which is now, is actually called spring festival. so now it's spring, no matter how much the snow outside wants to tell me otherwise :-(

greetings, eMBee.

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