Scribd is a four-year-old website that allows users to post, share and download documents in Word, PDF or text form. The site is phenomenally useful for journalism, and TPM has routinely relied on it to post a variety of documents.
But on Wednesday, we, and Scribd’s 75 million other monthly readers, were greeted by mysteriously disappearing text on documents we tried to read and an alarming message: “Congress is pushing through legislation that threatens the future of the Internet. With this legislation in place, entire domains like Scribd could simply vanish from the Web. Call or write your Representative or Senator to STOP SOPA and PIPA.”
Scribd pointed out in a separate release that “over a billion pages and nearly half a trillion words could simply disappear,” due to the legislation."
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