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With Blackouts and Twitter, Web Flexes Its Muscle
Some sites blacked out — among them, the English-language
Wikipedia
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, though it was possible to access the encyclopedia through several clever workarounds — while others, including
Google
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and
Craigslist
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, draped their pages with information about the bills, or restricted access.
Many start-ups quickly cobbled together tech solutions to support their cause. HelloFax, for example, creat...
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Summary
In an unusual orchestration, the Web buzzed with protests large and small on Wednesday, and some opponents of Congressional legislation took their opposition offline, too.
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