The message from the Wikipedia Blackout: Please leave the Internet alone — Wikimedia blog
blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/20/the-message-from-the-wikipedia-blackout-please-leave-the-internet-alone
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Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
The Wikipedia blackout is over. Our goal was to raise awareness about SOPA and PIPA and to encourage readers to make their voices heard — and we’ve been successful on both counts. More than eight million people used our look-up tool to find their elected representatives, and millions more made their voices heard on social media. Thousands of journalists wrote news stories featuring the Wikipedia blackout screen.