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Wikipedia Dark for 24 Hours
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| January 18th, 2012 at 12:11:05 AM permalink | |
| EvenBob Member since: Jul 18, 2010 Threads: 231 Posts: 6400 | Wiki went dark last night at midnight, till midnight tonight. Its a protest over the internet SOPA bill. I'm in serious withdrawal, I use Wiki at least a dozen times a day. Thank god for vodka... One casino owner to another: "It would be so much easier if we could just hit them over the head, steal their money, and throw their bodies in the creek." Al Swearengen, Deadwood |
| January 18th, 2012 at 2:14:49 AM permalink | |
| miplet Member since: Dec 1, 2009 Threads: 3 Posts: 552 | Either disable java script or use the mobile site http://en.m.wikipedia.org/ |
| January 18th, 2012 at 3:36:23 AM permalink | |
| P90 Member since: Jan 8, 2011 Threads: 7 Posts: 1117 | Most editors voted for total blackout... I expected it would just go offline, only the black page left. Seems like the javascript loophole was left for own editors. Just add it to NoScript blocked sites. Or you can add ?banner=none to the end of the url. |
| January 18th, 2012 at 4:55:19 AM permalink | |
| DJTeddyBear Member since: Nov 2, 2009 Threads: 105 Posts: 5714 | Google is doing a protest of its own. Today's Google "doodle":  It links to https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction Superstitions are silly, childish, irrational rituals, born out of fear of the unknown.
But how much does it cost to knock on wood? |
| January 18th, 2012 at 7:59:06 AM permalink | |
| Nareed Member since: Nov 11, 2009 Threads: 218 Posts: 7275 | This will answer the question: how long does it take for mirror wiki sites to go up? :) It's ahrd to take the useless gesture protest seriously. Like the atheist who boycotts a church. This space is closed for remodeling |
| January 18th, 2012 at 8:10:09 AM permalink | |
| P90 Member since: Jan 8, 2011 Threads: 7 Posts: 1117 |
You mean if SOPA passes or if it doesn't? If it doesn't, none: wikipedia will be back online tomorrow, it's a one-day protest. If it does, who knows. Since Encyclopedia Dramatica has been destroyed, presumably as a deal with Unfunny Network, it has been replaced by encyclopediadramatica.ch, but not all text content and less than 1/3 of image content have been recovered.
Actually, at this point there still is some chance that the bill might not pass. |
| January 18th, 2012 at 8:29:45 AM permalink | |
| AcesAndEights Member since: Jan 5, 2012 Threads: 11 Posts: 584 | I was disappointed they left the workarounds in. If you're going to make a statement, go whole hog! "Life's a bitch and then you die. Or seven out." -AlanMendelson |
| January 18th, 2012 at 8:44:21 AM permalink | |
| Nareed Member since: Nov 11, 2009 Threads: 218 Posts: 7275 |
You know, I've heard too little about that. I've been busy. Overall the government should stop passing laws and star repealing a lot of them. But that's not ever going to happen. This space is closed for remodeling |
| January 18th, 2012 at 9:03:16 AM permalink | |
| P90 Member since: Jan 8, 2011 Threads: 7 Posts: 1117 | SOPA isn't just another law. It's the ultimate "Guilty until proven innocent" stamp for online interactions. Never before have major websites, from relative small-timers like Reddit and Scribd to mainstays such as Wikipedia and Google, staged such an act of protest. It's a first, because the legislation is a first in voiding all tenets of due process at any accusation of copyright infringement. |
| January 18th, 2012 at 9:59:35 AM permalink | |
| thecesspit Member since: Apr 19, 2010 Threads: 38 Posts: 3106 | They should all offshore as fast as possible if passed. Seems like another way the US wants to put a bullet into innovation and IT. My fear is other countries follow suit (Harper here in Canada LOVES to follow the US example on such things). "Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept through nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire, for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829 |
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