Students Hooked on Wikipedia: Blackout Prompts Homework Meltdowns

When Wikipedia shut down its site for 24 hours on Wednesday, the intention was to incite voters, not students. But the blackout, in protest of a web piracy bill that could censor online content, turned into a nightmare for pupils who rely on the user-generated knowledge base to complete assignments.Buzzfeed collected a barrage of tweets from students Wednesday morning. They all went more or less like this:”Wikipedia can’t go! How on earth and I going to do my history homework?”and”They shut down Wikipedia? DAMN IT. I have a lab report due tomorrow. …

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