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The massively popularly website Reddit is ready to show the world just what harm SOPA could do to the Internet.

Reddit users has successfully boycotted Go Daddy for their support over SOPA and has persuaded several congresspersons to publicly announce their opposition for the bill.

On January 18, Reddit will black out their own site in protest of SOPA. For an online hub that snags up around 2 billion hits every month, a lot of traffic and ad revenue stands to be lost during the 12-hour span. For the administrators of the site, though, they are running short on finding ways to fight the legislation.

Reddit announced that “Instead of the normal glorious, user-curated chaos,” the site will suspend its content and instead post a message about the dangers of both SOPA and the Protect IP Act, a sister legislator of sorts about to go before the US Senate. The site will also post a live stream of the House hearing that will discuss SOPA, which Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian will be testifying at.

“Chances are if you’re a regular Reddit user, you’re either tech savvy enough to know the dangers of SOPA, or if not, you’ve at least been reading about it on the site’s front page for months,” writes Paul Tassi on Forbes. “Rather, even though Reddit is a massive site, the industry needs a nuclear option to truly decimate SOPA once and for all. Titans like Google and Facebook need to have a similar blackout, which would reach an audience far, far wider than Reddit’s.”

Tassi adds that Reddit’s maneuver is a good first step, but others must fall in line if they want to ensure a success.

“A blackout of the internet’s biggest sites would seal the deal automatically, and we could be free of this nonsense for good,” writes Tassif its kind so far.

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Wiki is also considering doing a similar blackout. This needs to happen. I don’t expect google or facebook to follow suit seeing as how much money they make, but they need to figure out a way to help spread the word.

im calling my senators today. you should all do the same.

come on google/fb, you can turn yourself off for 12 hours in order to protest. we know you don’t like this as much as we don’t.