Websites to look dark for Sandy Hook moment of silence.

Some major websites will go dark for one minute Friday at 9: 30 a. m. ET as part of a new national moment of silence to the victims of last week's firing at Sandy Hook Elementary College in Newtown, Connecticut.

It's unclear how widespread participation will probably be online, but more than 100, 000 people and sites have pledged to participate on the Causes. com page for the net Goes Silent campaign. People and companies now are also spreading the word by tweeting their intention to look quiet with the hashtag #momentforSandyHook.

High-profile Silicon Valley venture capitalist Ron Conway is working hard to promote the online moment of silence, which now is component of a larger campaign for fed gun control legislation. Conway is leading the delimas. com campaign along with additional big names including Ryan Seacrest, Jack Dorsey, Britney Spears, MC Retracted, Suze Orman and Tyler Florencia.

Causes. com is a startup that uses social media to make the awareness and money for charities and causes. Conway is additionally an investor in the for-profit organization.

Any site that wants to participate in Friday's moment of silence can do so by itself, or it can embed an official badge with a green lace on its site. At webmomentofsilence. org, companies can register to receive a bit of JavaScript that may make the process easier. Sites with all the code will appear grayed out inside the background with a white box inside the foreground that reads "We tend to be observing a National Moment of Silence to the victims of the Sandy Land tragedy. "

Conway joined other tech notables and a few celebrities to demand action for stronger gun control in a very full-page ad in the Wednesday print edition on the New York Times. The offer was run by Mayors Next to Illegal Guns, a lobbying group in excess of 700 U. S. mayors. It started the Demand An agenda campaign to reform gun laws as soon as the Aurora, Colorado, shootings in Come july 1st, and it has seen a new surge in new support as soon as the Sandy Hook shootings.

This is not the 1st time major sites have banded together to look dark for a cause. This season, major tech names staged an immense and successful online protest from the Stop Online Privacy Act.