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afterthedream · Joined: 24 Mar 2011 Posts: 220

So I was thinking... we've all got websites. We all enjoy the free flow of information. Why join join in the blackout today in protest against SOPA and PIPA? If anyone is down, feel free to use the following image to replace your front page for today.

I also added this explanation to my "Latest News" section:

1/18/12: We're blacked out today in solidarity with other websites in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act. These bills are supposedly about stopping the piracy of intellectual property, but they are written in a way that could be abused to shut down any website someone decides they don't like. If you want to help protect the free flow of information, contact your federal legislators today.
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Mithandir · Joined: 25 Jan 2006 Posts: 30

I turned all the comments on my site into ███████ ██ ████ ██████ for today.

afterthedream · Joined: 24 Mar 2011 Posts: 220

Mithandir wrote:

I turned all the comments on my site into ███████ ██ ████ ██████ for today.

nice.
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Max Vaehling · Joined: 31 Mar 2007 Posts: 384 Location: Bremen, Germany

Mithandir wrote:

I turned all the comments on my site into ███████ ██ ████ ██████ for today.

Ha! Love it! I just posted a comic pirating my own comics into a mashup that reads like ███████ ██ ████ ██████.
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afterthedream · Joined: 24 Mar 2011 Posts: 220

Wow, I had no inkling how effective this would actually be...

Then again, they did shut down MegaUpload today just as if SOPA had already passed.
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Dutch · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:33 am Post subject:

Those numbers aren't equal. Were there a lot of people in that first image that just hadn't said one way or the other yet and have only been included in the second image?

Because only 15 seemed to change their mind between the two pieces of 'data', which means if they joined the other side, that's 55 who weren't included in the first.

I only mention this because the news I was hearing over here about this when it popped up on the news BEFORE the blackout day, it was that the SOPA was already dead and didn't have the support to go through anyway.

I don't know about the PIPA one, but our news was saying that it wasn't an issue any more, and this was a day or so before the Black Out.

Just wondering how we were getting more up to date news about the bill than America was.
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Mithandir · Joined: 25 Jan 2006 Posts: 30

Dutch wrote:

Those numbers aren't equal. Were there a lot of people in that first image that just hadn't said one way or the other yet and have only been included in the second image?

Yes. A lot of fencesitters were pushed across.

Quote:

I only mention this because the news I was hearing over here about this when it popped up on the news BEFORE the blackout day, it was that the SOPA was already dead and didn't have the support to go through anyway.

I don't know about the PIPA one, but our news was saying that it wasn't an issue any more, and this was a day or so before the Black Out.

Your news was a bit outdated. It was indeed reported that SOPA had been shelved, but it was simply put on the backburner for a few weeks. It is expected to be resumed in february. Basically the main sponsor of the bill said "fine, fine, I'll toss it out" and then the next day went "I'm going to bring it back after the democratic/republican retreats at the end of this month."

Dutch · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 10:49 am Post subject:

Ah, so the truth is somewhere in between. Smile

Cool!

Not too certain about the fence-sitters though. Because before the black out day it was being reported that the big majority of senators were against it and had already said so, but that's all muddied history now, eh?
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