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for people like Sarah Reese Wikipedia is indispensable composers people actors countries whatever you need to know you get a Wikipedia but for one 24-hour period Wikipedia will close its virtual doors and protests to two pieces of national legislation a decision that users say will have a large impact my fiance's in college and he uses it as a reference I'd say that a very important source of knowledge would be taken away for me and my family the US House of Representatives bill is called Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA and it's pippa in the Senate protect IP act what these bills will do is require us internet service providers to pretend that these allegedly pirate websites don't existence reversely disappear from the internet the film and recording industry support the legislation as well as CBS Corporation parent of cnet and CBS News but some internet companies like Wikipedia and privacy advocates are incensed it's the free speech implications of this it's like saying there are a few bad books in the library so we'll just lock the entire library dozens of other companies like Reddit and Boing Boing or joining Wikipedia in protest also google plants on a homepage protest link you could have 10 million phone calls to the US Congress sign one day this has never happened before in the history of American politics this kind of direct intrnt inspired action one company that will now be joining the blackout is Twitter in a tweet CEO Dick Costolo said that wikipedias decision was foolish in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News