Wikipedia Blackout

[Mathew]

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?

[xxMATTGxx]

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!

[Neversoft]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MY KNOWLEDGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!

[GommeInc]

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.

[xxMATTGxx]

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.

[Ajthedragon]

Now how will I do my homework.

[geo]

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.

[wixard]

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

[Nemo]

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.

[Jordy]

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).