Simple turn off access to the English version as a form of protest against the draft Anti-Piracy Law Online (SOPA) and the Bill of Intellectual Property Protection (PIPA), which discussed the U.S. Congress. Google's search engine sites follow Wikipedia to protest the draft law.
Unlike Wikipedia, Google just turn off the Google logo on the page the United States alone, as quoted from Dailymail, Thursday, January 19, 2011. These efforts and show solidarity to the movement of Wikipedia. Google also lists the messages for policy makers in the U.S. so as not to censor the internet.
Not just Google, a number of sites such as BoingBoing, Reddit, WordPress, Firefox, and Metafilter also turn off some or all of their services. Simple movement been echoed 7000 sites in cyberspace. An estimated 100 million users affected by this protest movement.
Social networking site Reddit shut down the service for 12 hours. Discussions on this page discusses the wave of protests against the draft law.
Blog site, Wordpress.org, replacing the front page with a text that calls to oppose the bill.
The ModernMethod Network - made up of the site Destructoid, Flixist, Tomopop and Japanator - were protesting the list of messages and images the face of internet users who are not happy.
Twitpic showing black bands on its logo, with the words: 'Stop the sensor.'
Twitter did not join, CEO of social networking site is said to apply to the politics of the countries worldwide service is 'stupid.'
Previously, access to lethal Simple English version for 24 hours since Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 12:00 pm. On the computer screen looks a graded gray page with a big black Wikipedia logo on the left side of the screen.
On the right side of the screen there is a message from the founder of the site. The sound of her message as follows:
'Imagine A World Without Knowledge-free for over a decade, we spend millions of hours preparing the largest encyclopedia in human history. Currently, the U.S. Congress is preparing a regulation that could disrupt the Internet free and open to the fatal. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we turn off Simple. '
In this bill, it will be closing as well ban the sale of piracy, be it movies, music, and other objects. The trick, a number of Internet companies will be forced to shut down access to sites deemed unlawful. Proponents of this rule considers this rule will not have a major impact on the number of sites based in the U.S..
Network advertising will also be forced to stop online advertising. Then, the search engine will be arranged so as not to have links to sites that are considered to distribute the results of piracy.
Google repeatedly called this rule too far set up and can destroy their investment. Besides Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, and eBay also has made a number of advertisements in major newspapers to force policy makers in Washington will rethink this rule