January 8, 2015 Wikipedia shuts down in Russia to protest blacklist bill Wikipedia on Tuesday shut down its Russian-language site for 24 hours to protest a bill that would give the Russian government sweeping powers to blacklist certain sites, the latest in a flurry of legislation meant to neuter opposition to President Vladimir Putin's rule.
January 8, 2015 The Pirate Bay knocked offline after police raid The Pirate Bay — the notorious file-sharing piracy site that has tormented Hollywood for years — has gone dark after Swedish police raided a data-center facility where the piracy site was hosted and confiscated equipment.
