[rometest]

May be this is a dumb question, cant the universities participate in blackout?

[nowarninglabel]

For most public universities, I'm pretty sure it would be against the law to willingly take down services. Of course, this doesn't mean students and professors couldn't participate by taking down their sites or protesting.

[onedognight]

Here's John Baez doing just that. http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/