WIKIPEDIA AND GOOGLE will protest SOPA tomorrow.

Google will join Wednesday’s protest of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

Unlike Wikipedia and reddit, Google will not shut down its homepage, which is the world’s most visited site.

Instead, the company will display a message opposing the legislation.

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Hollywood) calls it a “stunt.”

UPDATE: A reader emails with a devilishly clever suggestion:

On the Wikipedia-Google strike/protest… what I’ve said all along is they need to go on strike in a more sensible, targeted way. The most onerous part of SOPA is the IP blocking and information control… the sites in opposition should give the would-be Ministry of Information a taste of their own medicine. Block all US government IP addresses from Wikipedia, Google, YouTube, Amazon, Facebook, and other opponents- from now until this bill is dead and buried- with a message redirecting to AFF’s “call your legislator” page.

Or if you REALLY want to get results… cut off IP addresses of the constituents of all members of the Judiciary committees, starting with those registered to their biggest donors (which is all publicly available information). This “do not serve” list could be made available for download by anyone who wishes to put it on their server. That might move the needle.

Heh.