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Sign up for the newsletter Verge Deals Subscribe to get the best Verge-approved tech deals of the week. Just one more thing! Please confirm your subscription to Verge Deals via the verification email we just sent you. Email required. Pipa sponsor Senator Patrick Leahy Democrat, Vermont said in a press release, "Much of what has been claimed about [Pipa] is flatly wrong and seems intended more to stoke fear and concern than to shed light or foster workable solutions.

Said Dodd of the broadbased, grassroots internet protest, "It's a dangerous and troubling development when the platforms that serve as gateways to information intentionally skew the facts to incite their users in order to further their corporate interests. People are really rising up and saying: 'Don't interfere with basic Internet infrastructure. We won't stand for it. As the internet blackout protest progressed 18 January, and despite Dodd's lobbying, legislators began retreating from support for the bills.

The internet roared, and the politicians listened , reminiscent of the popular uprising against media consolidation in proposed by then Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell, the son of General Colin Powell. Information is the currency of democracy, and people will not sit still as moneyed interests try to deny them access.

When internet users visited the sixth-most popular website on the planet during the protest blackout, the English-language section of Wikipedia , they found this message:.

Right now, the US Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open internet. Google has made no secret of its opposition to the controversial anti-piracy measures in Congress. But now the search giant is contesting the bills by adding a protest Wednesday on its home page, the same page where those lovable Google doodles are often found.

While it's not the Internet blackout that some sites, including Wikipedia, are planning, the protest will add to the growing chorus of voices saying the proposed laws are dangerous. Both bills, he said, were "done without a lot of thought about the impact and the execution and without a lot of knowledge technically about how the Internet operates.

Mozilla will join the protest at 5 a. It will black out the default start page for Firefox users and ask them to take action.

The protest had a few hiccups. Not all of Wikipedia's pages are blacked out. More than a few users of the encyclopedia seemed confused. Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. We delete comments that violate our policy , which we encourage you to read. Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion. Declan McCullagh.