"omfg NO wikipedia is closing tomorrow HOW AM I GOING TO DO HOMEWORK"
That question, posed by @LucieLovesYah on Twitter, is weighing heavily on students' minds this week following news that Wikipedia will black out its English-language pages for a 24-hour period beginning Wednesday morning. (@LucieLovesYah later wrote us to clarify that her tweet was sarcastic.)
The site's shutdown, which is intended as an online protest against the controversial Congressional bills known as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), has students in a tizzy and altogether unsure how they can complete assignments without being able to access to the online encyclopedia.
In my day, you had to walk all the way to the library and get an actual book.
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