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===Public Opposition===
 
===Public Opposition===
 
In addition to groups like Public Knowledge, EEF, and Demand Progress, who have generated a lot of public concern towards SOPA in the form of hundreds of thousands of letters, emails, and phone calls, there have also been two heavily supported We The People petitions on the White House website. The first petition, created on October 31, 2011, garnered 25,000 signatures in two weeks, meeting its goal two weeks before the deadline. The second petition, created on December 18, garnered its goal of 25,000 in just two days.<ref>[http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111219/21230217135/public-opposition-accelerates-as-latest-anti-sopa-petition-hits-goal-two-days.shtml?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Public Opposition Accelerates As Latest Anti-SOPA Petition Hits Goal In Two Days, techdirt.com]</ref>
 
In addition to groups like Public Knowledge, EEF, and Demand Progress, who have generated a lot of public concern towards SOPA in the form of hundreds of thousands of letters, emails, and phone calls, there have also been two heavily supported We The People petitions on the White House website. The first petition, created on October 31, 2011, garnered 25,000 signatures in two weeks, meeting its goal two weeks before the deadline. The second petition, created on December 18, garnered its goal of 25,000 in just two days.<ref>[http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111219/21230217135/public-opposition-accelerates-as-latest-anti-sopa-petition-hits-goal-two-days.shtml?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Public Opposition Accelerates As Latest Anti-SOPA Petition Hits Goal In Two Days, techdirt.com]</ref>
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===Reddit Black Out===
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The popular social news website and forum, Reddit, announced with a week's notice that it would black out its own site from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on January 18th, 2012, to protest SOPA. The site was influential in bringing about the aforementioned boycott of GoDaddy following the [[registrar]]'s momentary support of the legislation.<ref>[http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/01/reddit-black-itself-out-protest-sopa.html Reddit Black Itself Out Protest Sopa, NYmag.com]</ref>
    
==References==
 
==References==