Rawns Posted January 17, 2012 Posted January 17, 2012 English Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout - Wikimedia Foundation I see Wikipedia are blacking out for 24 hours in protest of SOPA & PIPA. Edugeek.net following suite?
TechMonkey Posted January 17, 2012 Posted January 17, 2012 Quite a few are. Raspberry Pi (discussed here) will also as well as BoingBoing, Reddit, TuCows, XBMC and more. 1
DrCheese Posted January 17, 2012 Posted January 17, 2012 *Awaits service desk job with a title of "OMG WIKIPEDIA DOWN NEED FOR LESSON OMG"
jamesfed Posted January 17, 2012 Posted January 17, 2012 *Awaits service desk job with a title of "OMG WIKIPEDIA DOWN NEED FOR LESSON OMG" Already have sent out an email and posted it on our Intranet anywho who asks about it will be directed right to it 1
sidewinder Posted January 17, 2012 Posted January 17, 2012 Think it will be me that struggles without it rather than teachers, dont think a day goes by when I dont use it! I support the action though, good on them
DrCheese Posted January 17, 2012 Posted January 17, 2012 Already have sent out an email and posted it on our Intranet anywho who asks about it will be directed right to it Aye, just done the same thing. I support them for doing this, aside from facebook or google no other site has the power to get this issue out to such a wide audience.
mjs_mjs Posted January 17, 2012 Posted January 17, 2012 Surely this will have a huge impact on facebook and google aswell?
Rawns Posted January 17, 2012 Author Posted January 17, 2012 I'd like to see the big players down for 24 hours. I would think that if Facebook and Google joined in, it would have quite a large impact. I see Twitter is not going to join in...
sonofsanta Posted January 17, 2012 Posted January 17, 2012 Already have sent out an email and posted it on our Intranet anywho who asks about it will be directed right to it Read about it this morning but didn't think to email round - good thinking Batman. Twitter have said they won't go offline, sadly. I'm all for Wikipedia doing it though - that'll certainly get the required attention.
Flakes Posted January 17, 2012 Posted January 17, 2012 whats the panic? DailyTech - Ding, Dong SOPA is Dead
localzuk Posted January 17, 2012 Posted January 17, 2012 whats the panic? DailyTech - Ding, Dong SOPA is Dead No, it isn't dead. It is currently being rewritten to address some issues, but will more than likely appear in a very similar form soon. Not to mention the one going through the Senate is still alive and kicking.
sonofsanta Posted January 17, 2012 Posted January 17, 2012 whats the panic? DailyTech - Ding, Dong SOPA is Dead PIPA is still alive as well, and doing the same sort of thing (albeit slightly watered down. Still, censorship is censorship)
LiamH Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 From what I read the way they will differentiate between "foreign" and "domestic" sites is based purely on the domain, so all .com's .orgs's and i'm guessing .net's will be treated as domestic sites in the bill. Would that mean edugeek would be liable if something posted on the jokes/interweb things turns out to be copyright? (its not always easy to tell) That would mean is john smith posts an amusing video that turns out to be copyrighted the US could technically remove said site from search engines, block all paypal transactions and ad's to kill the revenue and DNS blacklist the site. seems like a sledgehammer approach open to abuse. The current laws are already being abused. (https://www.eff.org/takedowns/) Source not sure if 100% accurate (blog.reddit -- what's new on reddit: A technical examination of SOPA and PROTECT IP)
X-13 Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 Durp, the blackout isn't that good. I just wiki'd PS/2 connector and it loads the page, then loads the blackout. If you press ESC before it blacks out... it doesn't black out. Fail blackout is fail.
bladedanny Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 Durp, the blackout isn't that good. I just wiki'd PS/2 connector and it loads the page, then loads the blackout. If you press ESC before it blacks out... it doesn't black out. Fail blackout is fail. Mobile version is also not blocked and turning off javascript disables the blackout. I think it's more about raising awareness more than denying users access. Most people will read the message then proceed to find a way around it.
X-13 Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 I think it's more about raising awareness more than denying users access. Most people will read the message then proceed to find a way around it. It's be more effective if it was a proper blackout though... Just take the servers offline. None of this slight redirect/full page image shenanigans. It seems like a cop out to me. [cop out - one word? two words? real word?]
JJonas Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 from twitter... Mr. Wales's (non-profit) Wikipedia sites are courageously blacked-out to protest SOPA. His (for-profit) Wikia sites are courageously not.
localzuk Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 from twitter... Wikia has various advertisers on there, who blacking out would affect and therefore they'd be breaching their contracts.
Arcath Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 I think it's more about raising awareness more than denying users access. That is the whole point If wikipedia had turned off all its servers then today would be "the day wikipedia didn't work" not "the day wikipedia protested against SOPA" I've found a lot of people in this country, even people in the IT community don't know what SOPA is, or why it is a bad thing. Others assume that even if it passes it wont effect them because its american, or that it will fail to perform like other anti piracy measures in the past. Everyone needs to be made aware of SOPA, imagine how many "my favorite site doesn't work at home anymore" queries we are going to get if SOPA goes through 1
PEO Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 Came on edugeek to see if you guys supported this campaign. I guess not, such a shame
JJonas Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 The Oatmeals anti-sopa page is good if a little NSFW TheOatmeal.com blacked out in protest of SOPA / PIPA - The Oatmeal anybody else found any good ones?
X-13 Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 The Oatmeals anti-sopa page is good if a little NSFW TheOatmeal.com blacked out in protest of SOPA / PIPA - The Oatmeal anybody else found any good ones? Ahhh... I can't see it. GIFs are broken on our computers... All I can see is "Hi there!" Can I get a description?
ianniow Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 I predict a baby boom in 9 months The Joy of Tech comic... What goes on when the 'Net goes dark?
Arcath Posted January 30, 2012 Posted January 30, 2012 That is the whole point If wikipedia had turned off all its servers then today would be "the day wikipedia didn't work" not "the day wikipedia protested against SOPA" Kind of a shame that it became the day that people learned escape is the keyboards stop button
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