When things go dark, people can’t read

In protest to SOPA many sites have gone dark for the day. The most well known and resourceful is the even present Wikipedia.

What's most amazing is that the manner in which Wikipedia blacks out pages, or perhaps it's just the people, that has resulted in a mostly sad collection of tweets.

@herpderpedia

To me. It's that simple emotional response. I need some information for . When I can't get it, I get pissed off. Habits for most people are probably tied strongly with Wikipedia. Finding facts are as synonymous with it as searching on the internet is with Google.

Unfortunately a paragraph is too long and the critical information of why and when will services be resumed is the last sentence. I wonder if that line was first, big and bold it would have a reduction in complaints. This is will probably never be known as I'm hoping SOPA gets shutdown and there's no need to protest freedom online again.

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.