Google, Facebook, Twitter, PayPal, Yahoo! and Wikipedia plan coordinated blackout in protest of SOPA
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Fuck that shit, how will I be able to tell all my friends what I'm eating for breakfast?
[QUOTE=Contag;34096328]As long as it only occurs to Americans[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure that the companies wouldn't just block the sites for Americans.
Plus if these get blocked in other countries it will draw international attention and put pressure on the politicians.
I 100% support this. I don't care how long they shut it down either.
If shutting it down for a month or longer means SOPA not getting passed, then by all means.
I'm totally behind this plan, will give me a reason to go out and play in the snow anyways.
SHUT IT ALL DOWN
[QUOTE=Contag;34096328]As long as it only occurs to Americans[/QUOTE]
Why only us? If SOPA passes EVERYONE suffers. Main Google will be shut down, so every other country will not have google.
[QUOTE=Paravin;34096371]Fuck that shit, how will I be able to tell all my friends what I'm eating for breakfast?[/QUOTE]
There is something the ancient people of our world used called a ''phone'', I don't know how it functions, sadly.
Children.
We are about to time travel back to 1995.
[QUOTE=Rocko's;34096385]Why only us? If SOPA passes EVERYONE suffers. Main Google will be shut down, so every other country will not have google.[/QUOTE]
Haha, no, they'll just go offshore and you'll lose even more jobs
[editline]8th January 2012[/editline]
oh fuck wait
Your politicians will try and blackmail and bribe other states to have SOPA-like bills
flip the switch boys
[QUOTE=Rocko's;34096385]Why only us? If SOPA passes EVERYONE suffers. Main Google will be shut down, so every other country will not have google.[/QUOTE]
The EU's already denounced SOPA in a resoluton in November last year, it's just that congress/the US government or whatever specific group is too bullheaded to actually listen to any other country.
[url]http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION&reference=P7-RC-2011-0577&language=EN[/url]
[quote]25. Stresses the need to protect the integrity of the global internet and freedom of communication by refraining from unilateral measures to revoke IP addresses or domain names;[/quote]
[QUOTE=iwirthless;34096096]We should get Valve behind this too.[/QUOTE]
seriously doubt servers in online games will be affected if sopa passes
[QUOTE=Shrapnel :3;34095949]Maybe someone will finally use bing...[/QUOTE]
Bing doesn't deserve to be used.
[QUOTE=Sam 01 1;34096617]Bing doesn't deserve to be used.[/QUOTE]
Bing doesn't deserve to [I]exist[/I]
Wait, if paypal does this blackout thing, I am gonna guess payments wont work.
I think that a company that handles money participating in this is not the best idea...
Some major websites did it in France and NZ and it worked
[QUOTE=legolover122;34096716]Wait, if paypal does this blackout thing, I am gonna guess payments wont work.
I think that a company that handles money participating in this is not the best idea...[/QUOTE]
Money is just as valuable as the information Google provides. That's the point they're trying to make.
Trust me, no reputable institution will punish their customers because Paypal decided to take their services down for 24 hours.
I've resisted the urge to tell people about this so they get the full effect of what SOPA might do.
Bring it on.
If the US passes this they have single handedly killed the internet
They won't actually do this
[QUOTE=alexguydude;34095972]Bing probably wouldn't work since it was proven they were regurgitating a LOT of results from Google.[/QUOTE]
That's actually not true. Just some BS Google spread by forcing Bing to add a result by using the Bing toolbar. Google toolbar does the same thing.
[QUOTE=_NewBee;34096933]They won't actually do this[/QUOTE]
If they're truly against SOPA, they absolutely will. It would be both in their own interest, and in the interest of the public.
I've heard somewhere that Amazon was doing this too.
[IMG]http://www.sharenator.com/w/facepunch.com_demographics.png[/IMG]
If this passes and Facepunch gets removed this place will be much more emptier
...Who's in India?
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;34096977]If they're truly against SOPA, they absolutely will. It would be both in their own interest, and in the interest of the public.[/QUOTE]
It seems impossible for big companies like those.
[editline]7th January 2012[/editline]
They will only damage themselves
Reminds me of Atlas Shrugged.
[QUOTE=_NewBee;34097895]It seems impossible for big companies like those.
[editline]7th January 2012[/editline]
They will only damage themselves[/QUOTE]
SOPA is also gonna damage them.
So it's just a matter of either just bending over and taking it in the ass from retarded politicians, or actively fight it and possibly also suffer some damage from doing so.
[QUOTE=_NewBee;34097895]It seems impossible for big companies like those.
[editline]7th January 2012[/editline]
They will only damage themselves[/QUOTE]
Oh, I severely doubt that. One day of outage, accompanied by a message to all Americans saying "This is how SOPA will affect YOU. Act now." Do you really think people are going to just swear off all those services forever because they go down for a day? Not a chance in hell. People are not going to leave Google, people are not going to leave Facebook...but they sure as hell are going to see what this act is all about.
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;34097591]...Who's in India?[/QUOTE]
Bots.
God this shit is going to blow up my school
My body is not ready
I can't wait to see my classmates' faces, they're all day using Facebook and for some shit reason, Twitter. :v:
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