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Black World Wide Web protest
On February 1, 1996, a large number of web sites were turned black for 48 hours as a protest against the passing of the Communications Decency Act in the United States. The Turn the Web Black protest, also called Black Thursday, was a joint effort by a number of civil liberties groups, including the Voters Telecommunications Watch and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Thousands of websites, including a number of major ones, joined in the protest. The campaign was noted by major media such as the CNN, TIME magazine and The New York Times.
See also
References
- Julian Dibbell (May 1996). Town Criers for the Net. Wired Magazine, Issue 4.05.
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