The Internet Blackout
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It's the Internet version of an industrial strike, basically. And workers only strike to either a) improve working conditions or b) to defend their jobs. What does any industrial action hope to achieve? A change in policy brought about by the massive support of public opinion.The Cool Kid said:http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.facebook.comWolf VanBerg said:Tumblr is still up, but the CIA an Facebooks sites are down for me..so i'd say check again?The Cool Kid said:Have you been on those sites?TopazFusion said:Actually . . .The Cool Kid said:
[br]Seriously? You spam links at people, but you fail to properly read links that people provide to you.[br]
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Your credibility just reached rock-bottom.
They are all working just fine. They are not part of the blackout.
https://www.cia.gov/
https://www.facebook.com/
http://www.tumblr.com/explore
and so on. Shows the quality of the website if it falsely puts websites on it.
They are all up.
Can I ask why you think facebook etc will participate in it? What do they hope to achieve?Grouchy Imp said:
Whilst shutting down sites that allow the downloading of copyright material is SOPAs base (and understandable) aim, it also allows in it's clauses the shutting down of any site that hosts copyrighted material. Sites like Facebook and Youtube could in theory be shut down almost overnight. A good friend of mine is a copyright lawyer, and when shown the SOPA bill it was described as quote "unbelievable" and provided a quote "shocking precedent". Now obviously that was before it was repealed, and it's had to be changed in order to be brought back, but it's been brought back so quickly I find it hard to believe that any of the changes will be in any way significant.
Now, I'm not going to get drawn into a debate on SOPA, but what I will say is that rightly or wrongly these sites feel threatened by the bill and they are taking action in order to show the world what the internet could be like if SOPA were to be implemented and abused. Because even if a law is brought in for all the right reasons, it is often used for all the wrong ones - just look at the case of the woman who sued a family because she was injured by the flying body parts of their son as he was <a href=http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/130874/dead_teen_sued_by_victim>disintegrated by a freight train.
This is one blackout I'm not going to complain about. I'll be mining all day long if I'm needed.
Microsoft supports SOPA. so no.ChromaticWolfen said:
OT: Google (including YouTube), reddit, cheezburger, a whole load of others.
All of 4Chan's text has been censored. 
That's a good way to raise awareness without the cost of profit.
That's a good way to raise awareness without the cost of profit.
Far over, the misty mountains cold.LordXel said:Indeed! Come around everyone, lets sing songs from The Hobbit so I can feel like Gandalf! Then afterwards we chase an internet dragon in the dark.FalloutJack said:
To Dungeons deep, and caverns old.
Not really, but you should look at Google's homepage. It's pretty interesting (though I thought they were actually going all out, not just a nifty Jpeg.)
You act like the internet won't function today. Most companies are bluffing (as Google seems to be shaping up to prove), and the rest leave plenty of functioning internet without them. It's just another day, but without a couple of things you might have to remember to use alternatives for, not some massive outage.