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Title: English Wikipedia blacking out to protest SOPA/PIP
Post by: stormeus on January 17, 2012, 08:59:30 pm: Quote
Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to 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 Foundation here). The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation in the United States -- the Stop 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.

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout)

And on January 19th, many American students will fail their essay assignments. :lol:

In all seriousness, I have to applaud them. Only by blacking out the project would people understand how catastrophic such a bill can be. As for concerns about U.S. holy veneration (thanks for that bit, JDC :p), they make another fair point that
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although Wikipedia's articles are neutral, its existence is not.

Your thoughts?
Title: Re: English Wikipedia blacking out to protest SOPA/PIP
Post by: Aldo on January 18, 2012, 06:33:03 am: ._.
Title: Re: English Wikipedia blacking out to protest SOPA/PIP
Post by: Matt Murdock on January 18, 2012, 06:34:19 am: Dude, I had to make my Geography assignment. FML -.-
Title: Re: English Wikipedia blacking out to protest SOPA/PIP
Post by: Teddy on January 18, 2012, 10:33:38 am: Its more than wikipedia :)
Its intended to be one of the largest online protest in history, but it may not be.

sopastrike.com is one of the groups leading the protest for today! Many sites have taken action.

For those not in the USA google has placed this logo for today:

(https://www.google.com/logos/2012/sopa12_hp.png)

Anyways, its a pretty serious deal. :P

and my thought is that its bogus and illegal for this act to pass and exist.
Title: Re: English Wikipedia blacking out to protest SOPA/PIP
Post by: Aimzz on January 18, 2012, 11:08:28 am: Looked at sopastrike.com, looks like shitloads of websites are participating in this, including minecraft.net. :o
Title: Re: English Wikipedia blacking out to protest SOPA/PIP
Post by: Aldo on January 18, 2012, 11:34:23 am: http://www.aldo-aldo.com/ (http://www.aldo-aldo.com/)

http://www.sf-ds.info/ (http://www.sf-ds.info/)

:)
Title: Re: English Wikipedia blacking out to protest SOPA/PIP
Post by: JayL on January 18, 2012, 11:46:04 am: Terribly easy to bypass the blackout.
Title: Re: English Wikipedia blacking out to protest SOPA/PIP
Post by: stormeus on January 18, 2012, 12:10:04 pm: Quote from: JayL on January 18, 2012, 11:46:04 am
Terribly easy to bypass the blackout.

That's intentional, apparently. Wikipedia promised to make the website available in some way in the event of an "emergency." :roll:

Even if you do get in, the entire wiki is locked for the day.
Title: Re: English Wikipedia blacking out to protest SOPA/PIP
Post by: Janicch on January 18, 2012, 12:18:13 pm: This is serious business, gentlemen.

First of all,
Anonymous SOPA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0P069RHa20#)

And few days after - Nintendo, Sony Stop Supporting SOPA After Anonymous Threats (http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Nintendo-Sony-Stop-Supporting-SOPA-Anonymous-Threats-38195.html)

Applause.
Title: Re: English Wikipedia blacking out to protest SOPA/PIP
Post by: Reece on January 18, 2012, 12:34:03 pm: These two bills, if passed could be the most damaging things to ever occur to the internet.

The impacts would be vast and so devastating to the world the internet will simply no longer be free.

Oh and if you want to read a wikipedia article, just add ?banner=none to the end of the URL.
Title: Re: English Wikipedia blacking out to protest SOPA/PIP
Post by: Get Murked on January 18, 2012, 12:44:51 pm: Google chrome translates, you failed Wikipedia. :D
Title: Re: English Wikipedia blacking out to protest SOPA/PIP
Post by: Alsatian on January 18, 2012, 06:40:58 pm: Quote from: JayL on January 18, 2012, 11:46:04 am
Terribly easy to bypass the blackout.

Yeah, just press ESC before it redirects. The amount of people I know crying because they can't plagiarize for their assignments and what not was... well, sad.

Quote from: Aimzz on January 18, 2012, 11:08:28 am
Looked at sopastrike.com, looks like shitloads of websites are participating in this, including minecraft.net. :o

PIPA + SOPA? HOW ABOUT NOPA!
Title: Re: English Wikipedia blacking out to protest SOPA/PIP
Post by: Julio. on January 19, 2012, 12:44:34 am: Personally I went for the 'Disable Javascript' approach. :D
Title: Re: English Wikipedia blacking out to protest SOPA/PIP
Post by: CharlieKasper on January 19, 2012, 09:01:48 am: I've had read about this in the newspaper. However, I'm perplexed, will it only affect USA or the entire world after the bill is passed?

P.S. Reece's idea of adding ?banner=none had worked yesterday!
Title: Re: English Wikipedia blacking out to protest SOPA/PIP
Post by: Alsatian on January 19, 2012, 08:15:17 pm: Quote from: CharlieKasper on January 19, 2012, 09:01:48 am
I've had read about this in the newspaper. However, I'm perplexed, will it only affect USA or the entire world after the bill is passed?

P.S. Reece's idea of adding ?banner=none had worked yesterday!

It won't have that much of an affect on people outisde of the US. If you're concerned about the future of sites such as YouTube, then don't - they'll just move their servers to another country where they can't touch them. Still, that's not the point: this bill is absolute bullshit.
Title: Re: English Wikipedia blacking out to protest SOPA/PIP
Post by: Julio. on January 20, 2012, 05:06:36 pm: The bill most probably will not hugely affect people outside the US, but it's the principle.

If the US does it, other governments will think they can too. We have to stamp down with a firm foot and show them that they can not just do what they please with the internet.
Title: Re: English Wikipedia blacking out to protest SOPA/PIP
Post by: Janicch on January 21, 2012, 01:17:42 pm: Anonymous Live On CNN! Operation Sopa (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCwjaZIBjLk#)