Stock Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 watmm should join the blackout tomorrow in protest! No point though would be preaching to the choir here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Wikipedia is doing a blackout. http://en.m.wikipedi...ive/Take_action Awesome. And yes, WATMM should participate in the blackout, considering this site regularly "infringes" copyright material indirectly, or would be seen that way by some corporations... I dunno if a blackout is "preaching to the choir" here, considering how little participation this thread is getting... remember, you don't have to be American to tell the American government to fuck off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squee Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 If anyone should close down their website in protest it should be YouTube. I have no idea whether they're already planning to do this though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patternoverlap Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 or Google. that would be interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roasty Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I dunno if a blackout is "preaching to the choir" here, considering how little participation this thread is getting... remember, you don't have to be American to tell the American government to fuck off. You'd have to be hard pressed finding anyone on this board who supported the Act once learning of it- had expected more outrage in general here too I wonder how many casualities would occur worldwide, somehow, if Google went down for 12 hours...it's almost like they have a social responsiblity to stay online Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patternoverlap Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I dunno if a blackout is "preaching to the choir" here, considering how little participation this thread is getting... remember, you don't have to be American to tell the American government to fuck off. You'd have to be hard pressed finding anyone on this board who supported the Act once learning of it- had expected more outrage in general here too I wonder how many casualities would occur worldwide, somehow, if Google went down for 12 hours...it's almost like they have a social responsiblity to stay online dunno if anyone would die but certainly revenue would be lost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roasty Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 "Oh shit, what's the number for the poison control hotline..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patternoverlap Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 lol true. maybe I overestimate people's resourcefulness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pennywise Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 "Oh shit, what's the number for the poison control hotline..." this is a daily occurence for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roasty Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 shit example tho, you'd just call 911 or whatever your country's equivalent of that would be this is a daily occurence for me. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest theSun Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 here's my letter to this dipshit senator gillibrand who is cosponsoring this evil fucking bill Senator Gillibrand, Empowering the Attorney General as such is unwise. The American people should be the judge of the legitimacy of their information. Many Americans know that our politicians are strongly influenced by campaign donations and lobbyists, and it is obvious that these parties have a desire to guide American consumer tastes in all fields (cars, food, philosophy, lifestyle, gender roles, sports, news, music, etc). While the Attorney General is not a politician, consolidating the power to choose what websites work and what websites don't should not be up to one person or entity. The public will assess the legitimacy of the information they receive and as our society grows to accept the reality of the internet, we will become much more rational in our ability to dissect and evaluate information. This is not a time to put up more barriers and block information, Senator, as this is a time that Americans are informing themselves. The United States Government cannot act as a censor, and will only serve to punish the public and will have little effect on real anti-American activity. Please do not continue to promote this consolidation of power within an already inefficient and corrupt government. If you have read this far, thank you, I look forward to a response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosmachine Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 total economic loss from one day of google being down would tally in the billions, guaranteed. search drives sales. it'd be like closing all the streets in all the cities... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superstix Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Obama no likie SOPA: http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngaudiosi/2012/01/16/obama-says-so-long-sopa-killing-controversial-internet-piracy-legislation/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roasty Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Scumbag Obama: Says he's against NDAA; Signs anyway Say's he'll end prosecution of medical marijuana: Prosecutions still remain Say's he'll close down Guantanamo: It stays open In all fairness though, Congress and Senate have more collective power than Obama has on his own Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 ^ exactly, don't let the white house response lull you into non-action. anti-SOPA toolkit for the common people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuatxuk Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 http://www.reddit.co...cnbc_why_is_it/ Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian on CNBC: "Why is it that when Republicans and Democrats need to solve the budget and the deficit, there's deadlock, but when Hollywood lobbyists pay them $94 million dollars to write legislation, people from both sides of the aisle line up to co-sponsor it?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roasty Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Australians are the world's biggest copyright pirates, they should be up in arms about this...yet no-one has a clue about it why would they remember, you don't have to be American to tell the American government to fuck off. what do you suggest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 remember, you don't have to be American to tell the American government to fuck off. what do you suggest? start here: anti-SOPA toolkit for the common people Basically just talk to as many people as you can about this, and feel free to write letters (sign your name to template letters, if you want) to American congresspeople. The higher the sheer volume of anti-SOPA shit they have to deal with, the more effective this will be. I've been really vocal about SOPA/PIPA on my campus. Hopefully at least a few of the people I've talked to act on their opinions... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roasty Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 We were close to having our own version of SOPA implemented here not long ago...it even got as far as Kazaa's creators demoing their deep packet inspection software to various law enforcement authorities whilst the communication minister was bloody determined to make it happen; luckily it never came about but it did make a lot of ppl nervous (especially the ISPs who were the most vocally opposed to it). The decision was drawn out forever; hopefully this isn't the case with SOPA/PIPA/Whatever-the-fuck-A they come up with next to push it I'll do what I can, luke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 awesome! anything helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertsk8er419 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 i... kind of hope it passes, the implications are making me salivate... oh look googles done something with their logo... again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rstark Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 I just hope my favorite porn sites are still up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tontonz1 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 even if this shit is passed, i bet someone will find a way to crack it. always more than one way to skin the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
data Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 twitter reactions to wikipedia being down: https://twitter.com/#!/herpderpedia what's up with google? i expected them to atleast put up a banner .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 at those wikipedia reactions guess that's the general crowd that uses wikis for their homework anyway though. WIKIPEDIA (۳˚Д˚)۳ Y U NO LET THE PEOPLE NEED CITATIONS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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