Author Topic: reddit wikipeda and such other big sites will go dark for 24 hours this week  (Read 3610 times)

Offline toadzilla

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(if your reading this you most likely already know about the sopa/pipa act thats in the senate and house at the moment if not click here to read upon this internet wrecking bill http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act)

"Student warning! Do your homework early. Wikipedia protesting bad law on Wednesday,"  Wikipedia's  co-founder Jimmy Wales said on Monday on twitter as Wikipedia prepares to shut down on wednesday at midnight eastern standard time,  Wikipedia which is among other websites that include Reddit, Cheezburger network, BoingBoing ,Craiglist, Mozilla, Minecraft as well as xda - developers and Major League Gaming which are scheduled to shut down at some point during Wednesday and display a page similar as the  picture above all in a stance to get the internet in the knows of the sopa bill/pipa bill. rumor has it that facebook and google are thinking bout doing the same but there has been no confirmed shut owns as of yet
« Last Edit: January 16, 2012, 09:18:10 PM by toadzilla »

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Re: reddit wikipeda and such other big sites will go dark this week
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2012, 09:11:04 PM »
awesome, +1 to the internet.

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the big ones should shut thats for sure but even with all this is it enough to stop this act going through
come to the rite place if you kiss admins as they promote you to admin.

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VIVA LA RESISTANCE!

FOR THE INTERNET!!!
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« Last Edit: January 17, 2012, 07:44:30 AM by Nevbox »

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YES!!!!!

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If sites like Google, Youtube, and Facebook all did this it would have a huge impact on the bill passing.

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i can not wait to see the sheeple freak out this morning! :)

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i can not wait to see the sheeple freak out this morning! :)

I doubt it, I haven't seen a site that wasn't still "use-able"...I think these blackouts are pointless if you can still use the features. Making your page have a black background I wouldn't expect make an impact, acidmods is blacked out 24/7 lol

In order for this to make an effect, you shouldn't be able to still search google or even sign in to facebook.
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I doubt it, I haven't seen a site that wasn't still "use-able"...I think these blackouts are pointless if you can still use the features. Making your page have a black background I wouldn't expect make an impact, acidmods is blacked out 24/7 lol

In order for this to make an effect, you shouldn't be able to still search google or even sign in to facebook.

agreed. well said.

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i can make it like that if people really want but i think the banner atleast conveys my beliefs.

also i have been posting this to peoples facebook posts that are freaking out about wikipedia etc.

They are not getting shut down They are in protest against two new bills going through the USA government called SOPA and PIPA. this bill would give the government and entertainment industry the power to take down any website they want and censor them from the internet if they manage to pass these bills. it moves the responsibility and guilt from the content creators (people who upload the videos) to include the people who host the content as well. this would mean that if a site had content on it that breached copyright (think of all those music videos on youtube etc) even if it wasn't the site creators that uploaded it they would technically be able to be shut down and have there funds seized by the USA government.  Its quite a scary bill when you look into it a bit deeper. The problem is most of the people in the USA government and at the top of these big entertainment corporations are greedy old people who don't understand modern technologies and ideologies as much as younger people hence why a lot of them are all for these bills.
« Last Edit: January 18, 2012, 06:43:45 AM by Mactastic Mendez »

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I think the point is to get the attention of people who dont really know whats going on. This is a way to get their attention. Here at AM I think everyone knows what this is about. I dont think we need a black out, I like what you did Robin.
« Last Edit: January 18, 2012, 07:06:29 AM by 1TONpete »

 

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