• Google, Facebook, Twitter, PayPal, Yahoo! and Wikipedia plan coordinated blackout in protest of SOPA
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This again? I still support this. When was the last time the Internet has felt so fragile?
I'm totally behind this. It will be inconvenient, but its only for a day and has a really good message behind it. I've lived without the internet completely for several days, so the sky isn't going to fall. But I have this feeling that many people are going to say "hurr completely glad that bullshit yesterday was over. I couldn't update my facebook status or tweet!" Granted, it will probably be the type of morons that lack the ability to read descriptions in youtube videos or say tl;dr to posts the same length as my post, but still.
[QUOTE=DaMastez;34103856]Microsoft needs to do this as well, because other wise there will still be Bing.[/QUOTE] And this matters why?
A world without google would probably hurt a lot of the companies in support of SOPA as well. I have no doubt that a lot of companies rely on google to get work done.
this seriously needs to happen.
I'm going to be really pissed off when the supporters keep pretending that everyone supports the bill, because nobody does. Absolutely nobody who isnt a company bribing- sorry, donating, supports this.
I'm thinking that if it'll be for a month or longer: Some people will have the wit to make thier own 'wikipedia', and make a lot of people happy / gain a lot of visitors.... But I'm all for this to happen - but if they don't do it right it, it will still affect the act, but may affect the companies negatively (at least in the short term). I'm still not 100% sure what the act prevents and if it goes into law how much it'll effect the rest of the world (outside the US).
garry should probably blackout facepunch as well [editline]8th January 2012[/editline] radical? yes would it happen? probably also yes
[QUOTE=DaMastez;34103856]Microsoft needs to do this as well, because other wise there will still be Bing.[/QUOTE] Unfortunately, I seem to recall both MS and Apple in a happy SOPA support list with the RIAA, MPAA, Universal and Disney. I'd not be using windows if I could play my games on a gnu/linux distro. Odd, can't find either on the wiki list. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_that_support_the_Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
[QUOTE=RIPBILLYMAYS;34096375]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.[/QUOTE] We really just made a law here saying that nobody is allowed to block or monitor annyones internet. And now we have to be without alot of internet services because Americans cant do the same? You are not the centre of the world.
I was wondering if they were going to do this. Everyone keeps saying that the SOPA would put these sites out of business, but they never really seemed to care. It seems like they actually do, and that's good.
but what if I'm at the bus stop and need opinions on hair dye?
DO IT Please...
SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING.
[QUOTE=taipan;34108451]We really just made a law here saying that nobody is allowed to block or monitor annyones internet. And now we have to be without alot of internet services because Americans cant do the same? You are not the centre of the world.[/QUOTE] No, but the trade a country gets from the US is likely to be a large portion of its economy. See spain
[QUOTE=Alexak75;34104820]And this matters why?[/QUOTE] Because people are more likely to just run off and use bing (or ask, or another search engine) rather than actually caring about the underlining issue, because that's the easier option.
[QUOTE=DaMastez;34109161]Because people are more likely to just run off and use bing (or ask, or another search engine) rather than actually caring about the underlining issue, because that's the easier option.[/QUOTE] Too bad those search engines are only good for really basic stuff. Google is the king of search engines, and Bing, Ask and Yahoo is just lowly peasants.
[QUOTE=Terminutter;34108270]Unfortunately, I seem to recall both MS and Apple in a happy SOPA support list with the RIAA, MPAA, Universal and Disney. I'd not be using windows if I could play my games on a gnu/linux distro. Odd, can't find either on the wiki list. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_that_support_the_Stop_Online_Piracy_Act[/QUOTE] There was some thread post here a while back stating that both MS and Apple don't support it.
Yeah, I hadn't seen anything from Microsoft saying they supported it. In fact, I vaguely recall them saying they are against it. [editline]8th January 2012[/editline] Could you imagine a day without Youtube? Half of the internet would implode on itself with rage. [editline]8th January 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=PX1K;34102122]No silly 404 pages. No silly simple black censor images across the logo. I want a completely unusable page that outright tells you that this could happen and a link to some more information and what you should do so people dont shrug it off. "Oh lol I'll go to facebook and comment about this" *Facebook is the same* "Oh.. woah twitter then" *twitter is the same* *youtube is the same* THEN it will hit home, I want people to panic about it, not laugh.[/QUOTE]I agree with this entirely. It should not just make people laugh or go "Huh, interesting." It should make them worried and scared about what this thing could do.
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;34109933]Yeah, I hadn't seen anything from Microsoft saying they supported it. In fact, I vaguely recall them saying they are against it. [editline]8th January 2012[/editline] Could you imagine a day without Youtube? Half of the internet would implode on itself with rage. [editline]8th January 2012[/editline] I agree with this entirely. It should not just make people laugh or go "Huh, interesting." It should make them worried and scared about what this thing could do.[/QUOTE] They are against it, they're on the list. They should still be apart of the blackout thing though. MSN links (when you type a link to someone) could have an redirect message going "This site is fine, but it may not be when SOPA passes, ACT NOW" Bing should go down too, even if you don't use it, it would affect most people.
This should happen. We should all have to sacrifice one day to keep the internet going.
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;34097591]...Who's in India?[/QUOTE] Hi.
Please, please do it. The vast majority of Americans know absolutely nothing about SOPA and will be completely ignorant until they wake up one day and Hollywood has ordered all their favorite sites shut down.
I would love it if they did this. I'd even give them money for it, people are too blissfully ignorant about this because it doesn't affect them yet and their brains are too small to look at the future.
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mUV0bcOxq4[/url]
Well, I hope they announce the date so that I can close my phone. I can already see 65 calls an hour from my friends/family/relatives asking me to fix their internet because Google and Facebook aren't working.
[QUOTE=Van-man;34097953]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] I like it in the ass. :smith:
INTERNET MAD, INTERNET CLOSE MAIN MEANS OF INFORMATION FLOW! Strategic. If we can't have freedom of surfing, they can't have freedom of using free information providers.
PayPal having a blackout? Great idea! This will NOT fuck over online businesses in any possible way!
[QUOTE=KingKombat;34108025]garry should probably blackout facepunch as well [editline]8th January 2012[/editline] radical? yes would it happen? probably also yes[/QUOTE] Nobody would give a fuck if garry blocked facepunch except facepunch users, who would be pissed off garry blocked facepunch. The number of people through facepunch probably dosn't even equate to 1% of the number of hits google gets, let alone all the websites involved.
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