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1. Why I'm a Pirate (ploum.net)
857 points by tbassetto on Jan 18, 2012 | 514 comments
2. No New Accounts Today
718 points by pg on Jan 18, 2012 | 94 comments
3. Stop SOAP (stopsoap.com)
598 points by llambda on Jan 18, 2012 | 67 comments
4. Congressman blacks out his official .gov website (house.gov)
587 points by sethbannon on Jan 18, 2012 | 38 comments
5. Wikipedia blackout page (wikipedia.org)
507 points by pitdesi on Jan 18, 2012 | 113 comments
6. Sal Khan explains SOPA / PIPA (khanacademy.org)
491 points by marcia on Jan 18, 2012 | 65 comments
7. Google's Anti-SOPA & PIPA Page (google.com)
482 points by Jarred on Jan 18, 2012 | 65 comments
8. Facebook Timeline is too awful to be an accident (jeffdechambeau.com)
349 points by jeffdechambeau on Jan 18, 2012 | 127 comments
9. I'm Pirating the Next Version of Windows (littlebitofcode.com)
341 points by jcnnghm on Jan 18, 2012 | 258 comments
10. The Daily WTF goes white to "support" SOPA (thedailywtf.com)
324 points by anthuswilliams on Jan 18, 2012 | 47 comments
11. The Pirate Bay's statement on PIPA/SOPA (thepiratebay.org)
305 points by llambda on Jan 18, 2012 | 174 comments
12. Google logo blacked out on all search results (in US) (google.com)
295 points by dvdhsu on Jan 18, 2012 | 44 comments
13. Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service from AWS (allthingsdistributed.com)
296 points by werner on Jan 18, 2012 | 126 comments
14. Reddit is down for 12 hours protest SOPA and PIPA. (reddit.com)
265 points by muriithi on Jan 18, 2012 | 32 comments
15. Hacker News Blacking Out Logo (news.ycombinator.com)
252 points by tluthra on Jan 18, 2012 | 47 comments
16. Fax Your Representatives to stop SOPA / PIPA (hellofax.com)
227 points by guiseppecalzone on Jan 18, 2012 | 42 comments
17. The faster-than-fast Fourier transform (web.mit.edu)
220 points by pmikal on Jan 18, 2012 | 31 comments
18. Senator Marco Rubio drops support for PIPA (facebook.com)
214 points by guelo on Jan 18, 2012 | 41 comments
19. Wordpress Blacked Out (wordpress.com)
212 points by tluthra on Jan 18, 2012 | 12 comments
20. SICP is being taught again at MIT (web.mit.edu)
200 points by gnosis on Jan 18, 2012 | 37 comments
21. Wired Magazine Blacks Out (wired.com)
191 points by sethbannon on Jan 18, 2012 | 10 comments
22. What I Wish Wikipedia and Others Were Saying Today About SOPA/PIPA (readwriteweb.com)
183 points by jzb on Jan 18, 2012 | 55 comments
23. Building a Modern Web Stack for the Real-time Web (igvita.com)
169 points by igrigorik on Jan 18, 2012 | 33 comments
24. Boing Boing blackout message (boingboing.net)
165 points by merryandrew on Jan 18, 2012 | 23 comments
25. Mozilla blacks out (mozilla.org)
162 points by jlongster on Jan 18, 2012 | 6 comments
26. Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works (wired.com)
160 points by shrikant on Jan 18, 2012 | 74 comments
27. 4chan "blacking out" (or, "spoilering") all comments as SOPA protest (4chan.org)
157 points by runn1ng on Jan 18, 2012 | 38 comments
28. C# to take a breaking change in version 5 (stackoverflow.com)
156 points by mwsherman on Jan 18, 2012 | 26 comments
29. WSJ comes out for SOPA (cnet.com)
150 points by goatcurious on Jan 18, 2012 | 84 comments
30. FARK has gone white to "support" SOPA/PIPA (fark.com)
143 points by CrazedGeek on Jan 18, 2012 | 6 comments

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