Wikipedia founder: site goes back to black if necessary

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Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, says the site is temporarily off the air as needed to the internetvrijheden on the agenda. Wikipedia wants to keep a leading role in the fight for internet freedom.

Online encyclopedia Wikipedia is willing to temporarily off the air if that is necessary for politicians to convince the internetvrijheden not continue to reduce it’. That says Jimmy Wales compared to The Wall Street Journal.

On 10 July, the Russian section of Wikipedia is still on black to protest against national legislation and in January there was a similar action. When were the English pages are temporarily not accessible, in protest against SOPA.

However Wikipedia is not known as an activist website. It does, however, keep a leading role in the fight for global internet freedom. “We want Wikipedia actually never offline throw, but maybe it should happen again,” said Wales.