By Daily Mail Reporter UPDATED: 13:06 EST, 18 January 2012 Google will claim solidarity with thousands of websites preparing to 'go dark' at midnight tonight, Eastern Time, in protest against draconian plans to police the internet and combat piracy. Some of the world's biggest tech companies are planning to take part in the blackout, including Wikipedia, Mozilla, Reddit and WordPress. But the search giant has ruled out the possibility of blacking out itself. Google instead said it would change its home page to show its support. Support network: Google will claim solidarity with websites blacking out on Wednesday but search giant has ruled out the possibility of blacking out itself
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Blackout of 7,000 websites expected from midnight EST on Tuesday until the same time on Wednesday
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales called the move an 'extraordinary action' against the endangerment of free speech
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CEO of Twitter says his site will not 'go dark' calling the blackout 'foolish'
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