Wikipedia Blackout

[xxMATTGxx]

#factsaboutwikipedia

[@]@xxMATTGxx[/@] There's 7 billion people in the world, that's a very tiny fraction :S

First of, *facepalm irl*

The whole point of "blackingout" is to make it aware to a lot of people. That does not people every single person in the world because that would be impossible. 7 billion people in the world will NOT see anything about SOPA. Mainly because they probably don't have internet, tv or newspapers for a start. Also the wikipedia blackout is only for the "English" version, so that reduces that amount quite a bit to be honest.

[J0SH]

First of, *facepalm irl*

The whole point of "blackingout" is to make it aware to a lot of people. That does not people every single person in the world because that would be impossible. 7 billion people in the world will NOT see anything about SOPA. Mainly because they probably don't have internet, tv or newspapers for a start. Also the wikipedia blackout is only for the "English" version, so that reduces that amount quite a bit to be honest.

Clearly a lot of people aren't supporting it because they don't want to stop pirating and Wikipedia 'blacking out' isn't going to make anyone say "Hold on a minute, I better stop downloading" hence why I said they failed, it's stupid that's my opinion and it won't change

[xxMATTGxx]

Clearly a lot of people aren't supporting it because they don't want to stop pirating and Wikipedia 'blacking out' isn't going to make anyone say "Hold on a minute, I better stop downloading" hence why I said they failed, it's stupid that's my opinion and it won't change

Another facepalm coming up, SOPA is not just about stopping people downloading illegally. You know them gifs people create on tumblr with clips from films, tv shows and all of that? They can be stopped with SOPA. You know those gaming videos people do on youtube? Those can be stopped by SOPA. SOPA is not just about stopping people from downloading illegally.

Wait, what do you mean they failed? Websites aren't protesting/blacking out to stop people from downloading illegal. They are doing it because they do not support SOPA altogether!

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Clearly a lot of people aren't supporting it because they don't want to stop pirating and Wikipedia 'blacking out' isn't going to make anyone say "Hold on a minute, I better stop downloading" hence why I said they failed, it's stupid that's my opinion and it won't change

I really don't think you understand what SOPA is.

[dirrty]

the websites that are doing the blackout, are doing so for the sole purpose of raising awareness in regards to sopa lol.

[buttons]

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

hahaha we're not allowed to use wikipedia for any of our work
god never realized how much i need that website till today

also this blackout thing aint working for me cause i still have no idea what its about and cba googling it to read, the only place i can be arsed reading anything from is wikipedia

[xxMATTGxx]

hahaha we're not allowed to use wikipedia for any of our work
god never realized how much i need that website till today

also this blackout thing aint working for me cause i still have no idea what its about and cba googling it to read, the only place i can be arsed reading anything from is wikipedia

Good news for you then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...ive/Learn_more

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[J0SH]

I really don't think you understand what SOPA is.

"Today, the Wikipedia communityannounced its decisionto black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia Foundationhere). The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation in the United States – theStop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA)in the U.S. Senate – that, if passed, would seriously damage the free and open Internet, including Wikipedia."

That's all I read from the article posted, so my posts where based on that information.

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