Black World Wide Web protest - Definition

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

• Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign

References

• Julian Dibbell (May 1996). Town Criers for the Net (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.05/scans.html). Wired Magazine, Issue 4.05.

External links

• Initial announcement (http://www.cdt.org/speech/cda/960203_48hrs_alert.html) from Center for Democracy and Technology
• Copy of Yahoo! homepage (http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/speech.html) on xarch