Wikipedia Blackout

[Succubus]

Oh dear, sounds bad!
At leastmy homework is gone.

[Chris]

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.

[MotorStefan95]

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.

[GommeInc]

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.

Shows how little I paid attention 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.

PIPA doesn't seemed talked about as much though, if anything it's the only Act which makes marginal sense.

[Nemo]

Shows how little I paid attention 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.

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.

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

[GommeInc]

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.

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.

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?

[Nemo]

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.

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?

GOD DAMMIT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEANT MAN



Anyway reddit is gonna be down for 12 hours as well, i'll have to study or something :s

[-:Undertaker:-]

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?

[xxMATTGxx]

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.

Plus banning smoking in pubs is very different than controlling the bloody internet.

[Andii]

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.