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Senator Leahy's full statement is available on his website. “My hope is that after a brief delay, we will, together, confront this problem,” Leahy said. He added that “misinformation” was spread on the Web about what the bill would accomplish. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) isn’t backing down from his fight for Congress to pass anti-piracy legislation and said on the Senate floor today he hopes “that in the coming days the Senate will focus on stopping that theft that is undercutting our economic recovery.” Leahy said he regretted the Senate will not be proceeding with its cloture vote on the PROTECT IP Act, stressing that online piracy costs jobs and poses a risk to public safety. JanuSenator Leahy made a statement urging the Senate to pass PIPA. You may also display a userbox on your userpage with the template. Voice your support or opposition to the proposals by voting.

However, this is not a Wikimedia Foundation page: it's a community page, and the Wikimedia Foundation is playing a support role here. If you have questions for the Wikimedia Foundation, you can post them here-staff will monitor this page. The community has asked the Wikimedia Foundation to keep it informed as events unfold: to that end, the Wikimedia Foundation will use this page as a central place to post information.

The Wikimedia Foundation is going to support whatever action the community decides to take. This is a workshop to explore various alternatives. Although opinion is divided on the issue, there appears to be broad support that some form of response is needed. Jimmy Wales asked for community input on a possible database lock, similar to what the Italian Wikipedia did in October 2011 in response to a proposed bill in the Parliament of Italy. This is a project page to determine what action is required on the part of the Wikipedia community regarding the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and our response to it (if any).

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Community actions on other sister projects (+ meta).

#The dragon and the clockbox update#

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Activities and initiatives ( )Īctivities at regional chapters and sister projects.

Post-blackout Community review (+ meta).

For more information on the proposed law itself, see SOPA To see the conclusion of the community discussion, skip down to this section For post-blackout news, initatives and discussion, see /Post-blackout activities and initiatives SOPA Initiative pages