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by lambada 5263 days ago
Thanks, so en.wiki will be gone for the whole world.

Not sure how I feel about that as there is nothing non-US citizens can do.

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They can complain on Twitter and Facebook which will raise awareness to their American friends who can do something about it.
If all non-US citizens that use the English Wikipedia had US citizen friends they could engage politically, US politics would look vastly different already.
They can proactively call their MP and tell them not to do what we are doing here in America.
But SOPA would affect us english speaking non-US people too, so raising awareness in the rest of the world is a good idea. We should be putting pressure on our own governments to a) not pass a SOPA-like law themselves and b) to not support the US in this, for example, Spain shouldn't cave into US pressure to pass a similar law.
If you really need info from Wikipedia, you can cache an offline version before the blackout. I like: http://offline-wiki.googlecode.com/git/app.html