Today I am going to do a topical blog, about a current issue in the news, an issue of great global importance. The matter in hand, is the shutting down of Wikipedia for 24 hours, which is happening right now, to protest about SOPA, an act that, if passed, will stop online piracy, and this upsets the internet people at Wikipedia. For those of you who live in North Korea, Wikipedia is, er, well usually at this point, I'd look up the description from Wikipedia, however, what with it being offline and all. Nevertheless, I shall persevere and come up with my own description. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, that have all information about everything and is used frequently by students (obviously I'm not included in this) to plagiarize essays and homework. It has cause such a stir that Wikipedia has shut down for this 24 hour period because of the reliance of modern society on the website. We have, as a society, become unable to research information, having become so used to having all information located on a solitary website. Also, I occasionally find myself reading articles on Wikipedia for fun (yes, I'm that dull) and this further shows how poorly we may fare without the online encyclopedia, where else can I easily find out about several subspecies of brown bears, or the development of the bat-mobile, or a list of spells in Harry Potter?
That is really all I have to say on the topic of Wikipedia, I don't think many people would be able to work without it and I like to read about bears on it.
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