Wikipedia started a 36-hour protest and its contents can not be accessed

July 4, 2018 – 07:05
The new European Copyright and Copyright Directive is pbaded tomorrow and this has produced the 36 hour "breakdown" that the page will make.

Tomorrow, July 5, the European Parliament will vote to decide whether it accepts a proposal for a directive on copyright. The Wikimedia Foundation has issued a statement announcing that it has decided to close its services in several languages ​​for 36 hours as a form of protest for the likely approval of the reform.

To protest against the likely approval of a reform of the Copyright Law in the European Parliament, we decided as a community to close @Wikipedia in Spanish for 36 hours. https://t.co/e08bmNurng #Wikipediaseapaga #SalvemosInternet #SaveYourInternet pic.twitter.com/GpnDHG7vkV

– Wikimedia Network for the Archipelago of Argentina (@wikimedia_ar) 4 July de 2018

The Wikipedia team points out that if the law is pbaded, the open Internet will be significantly damaged with the imposition of new filters and restrictions on Web access.

The reasons you can not access the content of Wikipedia #WikipediaSeApaga https://t.co/wYaHjK1nwp

– The HuffPost (@ElHuffPost) July 4, 2018

The text indicates that various personalities related to information technology are opposed to the proposal, including the creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, academics, human rights organizations man and other groups of science and technology

In the coming hours @Wikipedia will protest against a possible reform of copyright in the European Parliament and that would affect the encyclopedia and the internet as we know it. These are the reasons: https://t.co/ck6yqNNkN9

#Wikipediaseapaga #SaveTheInternet pic.twitter.com/dHE3bp9iw9

– Wikinews (@wikinoticias) July 4, 2018 [19659008] "From the Wikimedia movement we believe that knowledge can not be free without filtering Automatic filtering technologies have many flaws and can easily become mbadive surveillance tools, affecting the privacy and freedom of expression of those who live in the network, "they say in an article on Wikimedia Spain's blog