Google, Facebook, Twitter, PayPal, Yahoo! and Wikipedia plan coordinated blackout in protest of SOPA
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Atleast I still have my porn.
PayPal should. It's a wake up call. PayPal could get taken down due to "supporting" pirates who ask for donations using PayPal for disturbing pirated software, music and movies.
"hey guys plz suport me for givng u dis stuf!"
Porn? Hope you have downloaded all you needed to. People always say you should just stream it, but once sites like RedTube will either before to remove their content, or get shutdown. So, then full movies from sites like RealityKings will begone. RealityKIngs themselves might upload videos, but only preview videos.
[QUOTE=The freeman;34111035]PayPal having a blackout? Great idea!
This will NOT fuck over online businesses in any possible way![/QUOTE]Its a heavily trafficked website used by numerous people, the loss of which would be felt throughout everyone.
[QUOTE=Nitro836;34110756]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.[/QUOTE]
Can't tell if you're trying to sound stupid or trying to mimic a SOPA supporter. Which is both the same thing.
Fuck this could be bad.
I use google mail for work and I get most of my money from selling products through PayPal, if they shut down I can't pay for anything.
I hope you guys realize this could ruin some people. Especially those who aren't aware that they're going to do this and suddenly find out they can't withdraw money from PayPal to pay for bills.
[QUOTE=Esrange;34113051]Fuck this could be bad.
I use google mail for work and I get most of my money from selling products through PayPal, if they shut down I can't pay for anything.
I hope you guys realize this could ruin some people. Especially those who aren't aware that they're going to do this and suddenly find out they can't withdraw money from PayPal to pay for bills.[/QUOTE]
So could SOPA, since it puts the control of the internet as we know it in the hands of a few but fully retarded old geezers who's in the pocket of the movie and music industry.
It's a showcase of what could easily happen IF SOPA passes.
Don't like that to happen? then go out and spread awareness about all the bad things that could happen if SOPA passes.
Face it: this is a [I]"damned if we do, and and damned if we don't"[/I] scenario, and the temporary blackouts is the less bad option.
[QUOTE=Terminutter;34096568]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 [B]anything other than big corporations[/B]
[url]http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION&reference=P7-RC-2011-0577&language=EN[/url][/QUOTE]
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Not sure whether this is a good or bad way of spreading the word that SOPA is shit. Whilst I will be happy that the word is spread I'm not so sure public support will increase by much if there's no way to locate the websites that support getting rid of SOPA and generally will there be an increase in SOPA support as some people rage that the anti-SOPA tampered with their email account or hacked the internet away?
Either way I know I will have lots of fun when it happens because of reactions from people at work or just generally discovering websites that are still up during the blackout.
This needs to happen unless we want SOPA to pass. There is no use in me telling people that I know about it since they probably won't give a shit. But if they lost facebook for a day then they would perhaps start caring.
[QUOTE=The freeman;34111035]PayPal having a blackout? Great idea!
This will NOT fuck over online businesses in any possible way![/QUOTE]
Err that's the point. They're sending a message out
[QUOTE=Icedshot;34109145]No, but the trade a country gets from the US is likely to be a large portion of its economy.
See spain[/QUOTE]
Wth does that have annything to do with this?
And for your information Europe's combined economy is bigger the the usa's.
Wonder how long they will switch off for, they will properly loose thousands of pounds even if it went down for just an hour.
[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]
We can't do anything to stop your fuckwit politicians is why.
[QUOTE=Dokaman;34118541]Wonder how long they will switch off for, they will properly loose thousands of pounds even if it went down for just an hour.[/QUOTE]
They'll loose [i]everything[/i] if it passes.
I'm totally behind this. People who are supporting SOPA need to have a scenario that shows how messed up it could get.
[QUOTE=jetboy;34120880]They'll loose [i]everything[/i] if it passes.[/QUOTE]
This.
Facepunch forums, along with every other forum would cease to exist, facebook would also be shut down, blogs would be shut down, youtube, every place where a user can write something in it, filesmelt, photobucket, megaupload, whatever WOULD BE SHUT DOWN because the site owners would be 100% responsible for what their users write/upload on the site.
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The government is full of apes who do not know jack shit about the internet.
It's a good thing efforts like this will affect legitimate companies and not the pirates who already operate private networks so they don't get slapped with lawsuits
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[QUOTE=Str4fe;34124177]This.
Facepunch forums, along with every other forum would cease to exist, facebook would also be shut down, blogs would be shut down, youtube, every place where a user can write something in it, filesmelt, photobucket, megaupload, whatever WOULD BE SHUT DOWN because the site owners would be 100% responsible for what their users write/upload on the site.
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The government is full of apes who do not know jack shit about the internet.[/QUOTE]
Why would facepunch be shut down?
All you'd see is a flight of all internet services to another country
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