4.5 million people sign Google’s anti-sopa petition

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In a single day have 4.5 million people in the anti-sopa petition from Google signed. Wednesday did put the Google link to the petition on its homepage. It was one of the many actions against the controversial sopa proposal.

Google confirmed the number of 4.5 million against the LA Times. Google had on Wednesday its logo omitted and a link to the petition on his homepage with the text: “Tell Congress: Please don’t censor the web!” The petition called on politicians against the antipiraterijvoorstellen sopa and pipa votes.

Internet users could petition to sign by their name to fill in. Before the number was known, had Google already has an infographic published with statistics on the resistance to the proposals. Among other would be Wednesday already 3 million internet users in various petitions their displeasure known.

Since Wednesday, that number increased. So would 1,46 million people the petition at Avaaz.org have signed, and through Sopastrike.com and AmericanCensorship.org should be at least 350,000 people a e-mail to members of the Us Congress have sent. The White House blog reports that 103.785 people, president Obama have asked for an open internet to protect through a petition on the We The People website. Twitter reports that Wednesday’s 2.4 million sopa-related tweets are sent. More about the impact of sopa, you can read in the article, Sopa and Pipa: a black day for the internet.