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What is SOPA and Why Should You Care?

By Marilynne Rudick on January 20, 2012

On January 18th, Wikipedia shut down its site for the day and Google blacked out its logo. Hundreds of other websites shut down or posted messages explaining their opposition to SOPA. But what exactly is SOPA? Why are Internet companies opposed to it? And why should you care?

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Wikipedia is Big, But Is It Accurate?

By Marilynne Rudick on June 7, 2010

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute. The more popular an article, the more likely it is to be accurate, since the large number of eyeballs policing it ensures that errors are quickly fixed.

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