Today Wikipedia went dark. If you've been paying any attention at all, or have bothered to read any of the site's own statements on the matter, you probably know why that is. But Wikipedia, it turns out, is not solely the provenance of the well informed.
Twitter user herpderpedia is shining a light on those hapless individuals, most seemingly born after 1990, who can't seem to figure out why their external knowledge bank has gone offline.
And boy are they angry.
"omg no wikipedia fuck you for shutting dwn!!!!!! why is it down??? some shitty reason omg who cars," wrote one user.
"NOO WIKIPEDIA I NEED INFORMATION FOR MY ESSAY RIGHT NOW WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME?!?!?!" chimed in another poor student.
Many inexplicably took their anger out on President Obama, who is actually against SOPA and PIPA as the laws are currently written.
"not just wikipedia that's being victimised. do obama and his cronies realise how inconvenient they are being?!" wrote one potential voter.
"thnx to obama i cant even go on tumblr or wikipedia," added another.
It would be funnier if it weren't an election year.
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DECRYPT January 18th, 2012 at 06:18 PM
You can still get on press ctr-s right as the page pops up it will stay up (On Google chrome at least)
Chris January 18th, 2012 at 06:53 PM
Hey, I believe Wikipedia is doing the right thing by taking a stand against these bills. Hopefully this will make a lot of people upset! the fact that the government is trying to restrict internet content is not right! People have the right to free information! If they succeed with the SOPA and PIPA bills than what is stopping them from going even further? Please contact your elected representative and voice your opinion on Bill 3261 and 968!
JesseK January 18th, 2012 at 06:48 PM
Free information and still so many uniformed.
derp January 19th, 2012 at 01:10 AM
uninformed*
Violent J January 19th, 2012 at 02:48 AM
the past 24 hours has been rough for us all...