Google joins Wikipedia ‚day of darkness‘ protest – but is it a blackout after all?

• English-language Wikipedia blacked out at 5am GMT (midnight EST)
  
• Mobile version of Wikipedia still works
• 7,000 sites across the net join protest
  
• Founder Jimmy Wales calls the strike an ‚extraordinary action‘
  
• Sites such as BoingBoing, Reddit and Metafilter join the protest, while Google shows support with a black patch over U.S. home page

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2087673/Wikipedia-blackout-Workaround-sites-SOPA-PIPA-shutdown-protest-loopholes.html#ixzz1jpcTUXzP