Internet protests got senators to change their minds
Updated today 21:50. Published today, 20:13
The protests against the new bill is considered a threat openness on the Internet that was conducted on Wednesday has received four U.S. senators to change their minds and even more to express doubts.
A closed Wikipedia and several other sites that showed their displeasure. It was the Internet's way on Wednesday to show you what you think of the new legislative proposals.
There are two new U.S. bill that aims to prevent piracy online sales which now raises the debate. The proposals called Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and Protect IP Act (Pipa) discussed in the House and Senate.

Critics of the proposal argue that the new laws would give copyright owners the ability to close the sites and see it as a kind of censorship. Even those that link to sites where pirated articles, such as movies, music, clothing and computer software sold, could be closed.
The goal of the new laws are foreign sites that sell or display copyrighted materials from the U.S..
One of those who now withdraws its support is Senator Marco Rubio who on his Facebook page warns that the new legislative proposals could impact that legislators may not have thought of, writes site Mashable.
Rubio now calls one of the other signatories, Harry Reid, to think about and even he remove his name from the draft. Rubio writes that the proposal needs to be discussed more in order to "come up with a new law that takes care of piracy on the Internet, while an open and free internet defended."
Three more Republicans, Ben Quayle, John Cornyn and Lee Terry rejected the proposal on Wednesday, according to The Guardian and the eminent sanatorn Orrin Hatch said during the day that the proposal "is simply not ready to vote," writes the Wall Street Journal.
Altogether about a dozen senators expressed their doubts during the day. This then sites like Wikipedia and Reddit closed their services for 24 hours in protest. Google also protested by removing some keywords and Mozilla shut down their U.S. sites.
But the protests does not automatically mean that the bill be stopped. The man behind the sweep, Republican Lamar Smith, said in an interview that he refused to be discouraged by criticism.
Sweep was presented on 26 October last year and Barrel May 12 On 24 January, Pipa to be voted in the Senate