AN EMAIL FROM READER RICHARD DOYLE: “It’s not 6 am yet and I already miss Wikipedia. How did my life come to this?” Yep. Wikipedia has gone black, with a notice and a how-to-contact-your Congressman page. Amazon is carrying an anti-SOPA message. Google has blacked out its logo. It’s a big deal.

UPDATE: Fark, too! “While SOPA might be ‘almost dead,’ it’s not quite all the way there, and under various drafts of both SOPA/PIPA, Fark could have its DNS assignment (the thing that turns an IP address, like 10.0.0.1, into words like Fark.com) revoked without notice simply for linking to content that could come under foreign copyright claims. This means, even if it is actual news in and of itself, if we link to it, we can be shut down.”