2013-11-28: Replaying the SOPA Protest

In an attempt to limit online piracy and theft of intellectual property, the U.S. Government proposed the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) . This act was widely unpopular. On January 18th, 2012, many prevalent websites (e.g., XKCD ) organized a world-wide blackout of their websites in protest of SOPA . While the attempted passing of SOPA may end up being a mere footnote in history, the overwhelming protest in response is significant. This event is an important observance and should be archived in our Web archives. However, some methods of implementing the protest (such as JavaScript and Ajax) made the resulting representations unarchiveable by archival services at the time. As a case study, we will examine the Washington, D.C. Craigslist site and the English Wikipedia page . All screenshots of the live protests were taken during the protest on January 18th, 2012. The screenshots of the mementos were taken on November 27th, 2013. Screenshot of the live Craigslist SOPA Protest fro