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  2. Protests against SOPA and PIPA - Wikipedia

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    Google's policy director, Bob Boorstin, stated that a site like YouTube supporting user-generated content "would just go dark immediately" to comply with the legislation. [13] Tumblr , one of the first websites active in grassroots activism against the bills, added a feature that "censored" its website on November 16, 2011, and the social media ...

  3. Wikipedia : Wikipedia Signpost/2012-01-16/Special report

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    It is not a uniquely American issue, as censorship is on the rise globally. The form of the protest is orderly, will cause no lasting damage, and will not threaten anyone's health or safety. This is the right action to take, for everybody. --BlueMoonlet (t/c) 16:35, 17 January 2012 (UTC) Go and have a look what Frank Zappa did about censorship ...

  4. Stop Online Piracy Act - Wikipedia

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    On January 18, 2012, the English Wikipedia, Google, and an estimated 7,000 other smaller websites ceased standard operation as part of a coordinated service blackout as an attempt to spread awareness and objection to the bill. In many cases, websites replaced the entirety of their main content with facts regarding SOPA and the entity's case ...

  5. Censorship of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    When Wikipedia ran on the HTTP protocol, governments were able to block specific articles. However, in 2011, Wikipedia began also running on HTTPS, and in 2015, switched over to solely HTTPS. [1] Since then, the only censorship options have been to block one of the entire list of Wikipedias for a particular language or prosecute editors. The ...

  6. List of American films of 2016 - Wikipedia

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    Jack Reacher: Never Go Back: Paramount Pictures / Skydance Media: Edward Zwick (director/screenplay); Richard Wenk, Marshall Herskovitz (screenplay); Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders [146] Keeping Up with the Joneses: 20th Century Fox: Greg Mottola (director); Michael LeSieur (screenplay); Zach Galifianakis, Jon Hamm, Isla Fisher, Gal Gadot [147 ...

  7. List of Universal Pictures films (2010–2019) - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of films produced or distributed by Universal Pictures from 2010 to 2019, founded in 1912 as the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. It is the main motion picture production and distribution arm of Universal Studios , a subsidiary of the NBCUniversal division of Comcast .

  8. Pirated movie release types - Wikipedia

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    In October 1999, DeCSS was released. This program enables anyone to remove the CSS encryption on a DVD. Although its authors only intended the software to be used for playback purposes, [2] it also meant that one could decode the content perfectly for ripping; combined with the DivX 3.11 Alpha codec released shortly after, the new codec increased video quality from near VHS to almost DVD ...

  9. List of 2016 films based on actual events - Wikipedia

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    Goat (2016) – drama film telling the true story of a 19-year-old and his brother who pledge the same fraternity and experience hazing [70] Gold (2016) – crime drama film based on the true story of the 1993 Bre-X mining scandal, when a massive gold deposit was supposedly discovered in the jungles of Indonesia [71]