Wikipedia will be staging a blackout at 5:00 UTC tomorrow in protest of proposed SOPA and PIPA legislation. Read more here:http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/...-SOPA_blackout
Think it will make any difference?
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Wikipedia will be staging a blackout at 5:00 UTC tomorrow in protest of proposed SOPA and PIPA legislation. Read more here:http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/...-SOPA_blackout
Think it will make any difference?
Reddit, Mojang (Creators of Minecraft) and some other sites are also taking part in the blackout. Both need to be stopped and controlling the internet this way is not the way to go and it was never intended to be!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MY KNOWLEDGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!
I didn't realise this whole SOPA business was that big a deal :S I thought they got the message when GoDaddy started protesting - you only really hear of the protests rather than anything from the Government about it, and their response to these protests. Hopefully it will make a difference, it's a ridiculous piece of legislation that goes against what the internet was for. It's only for a day, so I think I can live without Wikipedia. Anyone who can't probably needs the time away from the computer anyway.
GoDaddy protesting? They were agreeing with SOPA before everyone started moving their domains over to companies like namecheap who was taking advantage of it. Then now GoDaddy "no longer" supports it.Quote:
Originally Posted by GommeInc
Now how will I do my homework. :(
This! Oh god, I better crack on before they do it, aha. I really does do all my homework. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Ajthedragon
NOOOOOO
i have my hardest lecture on wednesdays and he asks us ridiculously hard questions and gives us 3 minutes to come up with answers in groups so what everyone naturally does is wikipedia the **** out of a term he uses and regurgitates it back and it NEVER FAILS
now it will be revealed that we're all clueless
SOPA's been pretty much shelved now so the main focus is in getting rid of PIPA. I very much doubt either of these will go through no matter what though. People simply won't put up with it.
I think Wikipedia is definitely helping the cause even if the legislation is in tatters anyway, a major website like this going down will bring enormous media attention (And let's face it, all journalists use is Wikipedia and Twitter so they're ****** without it).
Oh dear, sounds bad!
At leastmy homework is gone.
Well if it helps stop them then wikipedia and these other sites being shut down for a day is good. I dont think anything will be passed anyway tbh.
I don't agree with this SOPA stuff. The US government were criticizing China for censoring the internet search results. They are doing basically the same thing. Thank you Wikipedia for standing up for the free internet. :)
Shows how little I paid attention :P Either way, the fact "the internet" was disagreeing with SOPA to the extent they would move their domains else where seemed like a pretty big hint that this Act is not wanted. It seemed like quite a big wake up call, but it must of fallen of deaf ears :/ I'm amazed the American Government is still trying to push it through all these Bills.Quote:
Originally Posted by xxMATTGxx
PIPA doesn't seemed talked about as much though, if anything it's the only Act which makes marginal sense.
PIPA isn't being talked about as much because it wasn't as bad as SOPA, however now that that's out the way (for now), I can imagine it taking a larger spotlight.Quote:
Originally Posted by GommeInc
Also their strategy seems to be working on you at least. It's a kind of a foot in the door technique, start off with something completely unreasonable that no one will agree with (SOPA), and then say something still unreasonable, but not as bad in comparison (PIPA) so that people will be fine with it. Do not be fooled Gommeeeee!
Also how are you supposed to pronounce your name Ryan? I always think im doing it right but i can never be sure
Oh no I know it is stupid either way and not really something worthy of support, its just marginally makes more sense than SOPA but can easily be manipulated to serve other purposes e.g. what SOPA wants to do. Governments love pushing in laws slowly, by using less controversial laws and then building them up with amendments.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nemo
And it's pronounced: Rye (as in The Catcher in the Rye) and An, as in "an oblong". Have you never come a cross a Ryan? :P
GOD DAMMIT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEANT MANQuote:
Originally Posted by GommeInc
Anyway reddit is gonna be down for 12 hours as well, i'll have to study or something :s
I find it strange how people here are up in arms over internet regulation, yet don't seem to mind the government regulating business, the health service, the education system, smoking inside pubs/bars and so on. When i've tried arguing against all of these i've had to go up against the usual 'oh but without government intervention, smoking in pubs will be allowed and I don't like that' which destroys the entire basic idea of how a free society works. But as with smoking in pubs/bars, people don't seem to care about the loss of freedom simply for the fact that they don't like smoking - what goes around comes around people.
How about accepting that all government regulation, although often driven by good intentions, is poisonous either intentionally or unintentionally?
How about no. The internet was never meant to be controlled by any government and should never be controlled by government. Stop bringing other crap into it.Quote:
Originally Posted by -:Undertaker:-
Plus banning smoking in pubs is very different than controlling the bloody internet.
Anyone heard on the news about wikipedia going dark for a campaign to stop the US government from shutting down sites?
Edited by Catzsy (Forum Super Moderator) : Thread merged as same topic.
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.
I noticed the second method of this today. I think I rely on wikipedia too much!Quote:
Originally Posted by Grig
Disable Javascript to circumvent the blackout.
Some other sites are shutting down too. It's a 24 hour blackout.
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
It stills work on phones anyway, they failed
as someone else has already mentioned (in current affairs I think) that they only wanted to get people talking which they have so they haven't failed
No one else except for people on a Habbo forum is talking though. The only people it will affect is people on the day doing course work so it's pointless.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shar
i've heard them speak about it on the radio actually
These blackouts are beyond a joke. I know SOPA is bad and everything but it's silly for normal users.
I could deal with Wikipedia, but when I go to forums and other sites to go and find out a piece of information, only to be greeted by a black page and a wall of text, it's piss annoying.
They really should only be showing these SOPA messages to US residents. For example, on XDA-Developers they'll reopen the site when 50,000 people have signed their pledge, but people outside the US can't sign the pledge or access the site :/
many other sites have followed aswell :) but if this happens then everything wil be ruined like habbo :O
I noticed, well that's annoying.Quote:
Originally Posted by 22andy223
lmao if this is passed tho the whole internet will be destroyed hahaha like imagine all the internet sites with like images that are just copyed and pasted such as facebook and all social networking sites (heard from a friend btw)
eurgh, everyone on facebook won't shut the **** up about it :l
Well that's a silly thing to say because we aren't the only forum or people in the world who would of noticed the blackout.Quote:
Originally Posted by J0SH