Wikipedia shutting down temporarily in protest

This forum's responses might slow down a bit as well.

Good.  To the OP, that is, not to RGD.

Top tip if you're a Google Chrome user (may work with other browsers too)

Choose the Spanish language version of Wikipedia from the homepage, or by clicking ortada">here. Search as normal, hit translate and the English language page pops up

Apparently wiki works if you disable javascript.  They haven't actually taken the content down as this would trash their SEO, they are just hiding it.  Not tried it myself though...

Or view it on mobile, or turn off javascript...

Agree good, but I can't see the US government being overly troubled by the 'strike'. 

Obama isn't in favour of the bills, so you never know.

The left have a minority in congress though, so not sure if it's up to him.

I doubt it was done to inconvenience the government. What it has done is it has been reported all over the world, bringing much needed prominence of the main issue i.e. the SOPA and PIPA acts, and hopefully meaning people sit up and take action to protest and campaign against it. The US government certainly cares about pleasing voters (or at least wants to appear that it does).