Wikipedia Blackout

Thread about it in current affairs. Wiki and other sites are going dark to show awareness and to protest against SOPA and PIPA.
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NOW LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF WIKIPEDIA..
WAS WIKIPEDING SOME KNOWLEDGE AND URGHHHHHH

fun ways to get around the wikipedia blackout:

1) use google cache
2) press escape as the page loads
3) turn off javascript
4) use the mobile version http://en.m.wikipedia.org/

The point isn't to make wikipedia unavailable, it's to make people talk. so far so good

Google blacked themselves out for a bit too :P.

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Originally Posted by Grig

fun ways to get around the wikipedia blackout:

1) use google cache
2) press escape as the page loads
3) turn off javascript
4) use the mobile version http://en.m.wikipedia.org/

The point isn't to make wikipedia unavailable, it's to make people talk. so far so good

Google blacked themselves out for a bit too :P.

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I noticed the second method of this today. I think I rely on wikipedia too much!

Disable Javascript to circumvent the blackout.

Some other sites are shutting down too. It's a 24 hour blackout.

http://www.iaza.com/work/120119C/iaza19369674632600.jpg

Reddits completely out :(
You can just hit the stop loading button on wiki to avoid the blackout.

Let me check on Wikipedia why Wikipedia has downtime..

if you click "Learn More" it shows the page explaining why haha