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Reddit Blackout Explained: Thousands of Subreddits Go Offline in Protest Against Reddit’s New Pricing Policy for Third-Party Apps

Imagine this: thousands of the discussion rooms on the social platform Reddit, just like rooms in a gigantic virtual house, have decided to switch off their lights and close their doors. They’re planning to stay this way for a full 48 hours, to protest against a new move by Reddit to start charging third-party applications for something called API access.

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SOPA and PIPA Effectively Killed by Internet Lashback and Blackouts

The Internet protests to the proposed anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA, including the ‘blackouts’ by sites like Wikipedia, and protest-filled homepages of sites like Craigslist, have had a real impact. So real, in fact, that the status of SOPA and PIPA is that they are now effectively dead.

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Is Wikipedia Down? Maybe – But it May Be On Purpose

If you are wondering whether Wikipedia is down – and you find yourself wondering this on January 18, 2012, then Wikipedia may indeed be down, but it is a planned Wikipedia blackout, to protest SOPA (even though it has been killed) and PIPA (which will hopefully suffer the same fate).