Blackout

[Sno]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://www.google.com
http://www.reddit.com at about 8am EST time)
http://wordpress.org/


Those are websites that are now blacked out, or are about to launch a blackout in protest of SOPA. Anyone else know of websites that are pulling out major stops (as in, what Wikipedia shows)

[Ded10c]

There are hundreds.

[Dx.]

google works

[Blunt Force Trauma]

Lot of insightful comments in this "Hitler Hates SOPA".

[Ded10c]

google works

They're not blacked out but they are... sort of. The doodle is blacked out, anyway.

[hitchcockgreen]

Not in Canada it isn't, but that makes sense.

The Oatmeal is blacked out as well.

[hitchcockgreen]

Lot of insightful comments in this "Hitler Hates SOPA".

Youtube is renowned for the stellar quality of it's comments. For this reason I never read them.

[Blunt Force Trauma]

I meant the comments 'Hitler' makes.

H.R.3261 -- Stop Online Piracy Act

[hitchcockgreen]

Ah well that makes more sense.

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[Dx.]

I heard 10 thousand sites was blacked out and congress changed their minds.

[Ded10c]

Congress haven't changed their minds, but Obama's objections have pushed the vote back to Feb 18. A few important representatives dropped support after the protest.

[hitchcockgreen]

And that was only SOPA... PIPA seems to be going strong as well.

[Ded10c]

And ACTA has been drafted up as well. I wonder, will the US chip in to protest that like everybody else chipped in to protest SOPA?

[hitchcockgreen]

The U.S. is awfully proud of the successes they had with the censoring technology they sold to Syria, China and Kyrgyzstan. Now it's time to bring it home.... for the dinosaur media that is too f*** up to change a half-century old business model that no longer applies to the real world.

[Ded10c]

Megaupload has been taken down by the Department of Justice. A "criminal enteprise" and "mega conspiracy".

[Sno]

Anonymous has fired back by shutting down the DoJ, RIAA and MPAA

http://www.slashgear.com/anonymous-take ... -19210145/

[Dx.]

The sites they took down was all back up except one which still says:
"The Site is under maintenance. Please expect it to be back shortly".

So what I see is the Government engaging in crime while pointing a figure at someone else...

I think it's time to boycott the MPAA and RIAA.

[Blunt Force Trauma]

That's sort of like telling the local law enforcement you're not allowing them to arrest you next time you get a DUI because their jail sucks.

[Dx.]

Well it clearly isn't a matter for ICE nor the Government to get into so if you're saying one criminal act is ok if it stops another... It would be more like law enforcement that's smoken weed then arrests you for a DUI.