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By Dominique Sterling |Staff Writer| Wikipedia closed its doors to all English language website users on Jan. 18 for a 24-hour protest against proposed Congressional legislation. One of the world's main sources for free information became no longer accessible. Wikipedia is known as an Internet-based encyclopedia that many college students use as a quick reference, yet are often told by their professors that it is not a creditable source of information.  Although many of our professors tell us not to use Wikipedia for research, I still refer to it as a tool of reference. How people prepare for tests and write papers is one thing, why Wikipedia blacked itself out is the bigger issue … [Read more...] about SOPA sucks the life out of the Internet