Protest SOPA, English wikipedia is closed For 24 hours

Sites in the world's largest online encyclopedia Wikipedia will close its site especially the English language, in this January 18, 2012. This is an act of protest against the rule that while the congress discussed the United States that is named Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

This announcement Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales revealed that in tweet networking site Twitter, Monday, January 16, 2012. According to Wales,
The closure will be conducted Tuesday midnight to midnight Wednesday,United States.
The protest is to request that a number of articles contained in the law on removed because it is perceived to be highly curb freedom of speech in the Internet world.

At this writing english wikipedia site can be accessed  Wikipedia as shown below




Even so then a few seconds and then will be redirected page like the following picture


The page is written like this

Imagine a World
Without Free Knowledge
For over a decade, We have spent Millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation That Could fatally damage the free and open Internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, We Are blacking out Wikipedia.learn more

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