SOPA and PIPA on the social web - right now!
The social web is exploding with SOPA and PIPA related content today! We’re seeing nearly ten clicks per second on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s “Stop the Internet Blacklist Legislation”, over two clicks per second on SOPA related web pages, and almost 1 click a second on PIPA related web pages.
The top few most popular pages, of over the 12400 current URLs we’re seeing people share on SOPA and PIPA, include:
The top few most popular pages, of over the 12400 current URLs we’re seeing people share on SOPA and PIPA, include:
- White House Will Not Support SOPA, PIPA - Opponents of online piracy regulation bills SOPA and PIPA scored a major victory on Saturday.
- SOPA and PIPA are bad industrial policy - O’Reilly Radar - SOPA and PIPA are bad industrial policy. The solution to piracy must be a market solution, not a…
- TechnoBuffalo Joins January 18 SOPA/PIPA Protest by Going Dark - SOPA and PIPA present is one of those times. TechnoBuffalo would like to announce that it will be…
- What Is SOPA? - …by it’s cuter-but-still-deadly name: PIPA. Hearings for both are on hold for now, but the SOPA…
- SOPA explained: What it is and why it matters - The tech industry is abuzz about SOPA and PIPA, a pair of anti-piracy bills. Here’s why they’re…? The controversial pair of bills, SOPA and PIPA, have sparked an all-out war between Hollywood and…
- Wikipedia Blackout: Websites Wikipedia, Reddit, Others Go Dark Wednesday to Protest - Do not try to look up ” Internet Censorship ” or ” SOPA ” or ” PIPA ” on Wikipedia, the giant online encyclopedia, on Wednesday. SOPA and PIPA are two bills in Congress meant to stop the illegal…
And here is a time series plot that shows how the social web woke up today and clicked on shared links about SOPA and PIPA:
The red line is SOPA and the blue line is PIPA. The x-axis here is time (in UTC; add 5 to get EST and 8 to get PST) and the y-axis shows clicks per second every half an hour.
Here at bitly we’re excited to see this important message propagating quickly, even if the wikipedia blackout means we cannot brain today…
