The celebrity micro blogging site Twitter was sharp with criticism on the Wikipedia black-out slated for the day, as `silly and foolish.’ The tweets from the site’s management felt that it was inappropriate to shun global audience in reaction to single-issue national politics.

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and the community has decided to shut down the English version of the website, on Wednesday. This major step has been taken in view to protest the highly controversial U.S. anti-piracy legislation act. He felt if these bills get approval, would curtail freedom of expression for the millions logged on to internet across the globe. He also held the opinion that this bill would lead to similar types of bills across the world censoring internet freedom.

Wales is one of the opponents of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act). The main motive of the bill is to crack down on the websites that offer copyrighted content without the owner’s permission. He shared this news using his official Twitter account as the platform where he Tweeted: `Student warning! Do your homework early. Wikipedia protesting bad law on Wednesday.’

As per sources most of the other social networking sites did not agree with bills. But were against the Wikipedia’s black out, too. The Radar Correspondent Alex Howard tweeted how Twitter’s Dick Costolo, Google's Eric Schmidt and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg would react on this black-out. Costolo seems to have vehemently replied, ` That's just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.’