It's not about me. This is the typical thinking about people who view from afar and think they can't change anything. Armadeadn said something similar a little while back about him not voting because he doesn't think his single vote can make a difference. When people start thinking like this, in numbers, then the nation will become run with an iron fist in front of their own eyes simply because they did nothing about it. The government does what they think is right, butwe all know that governments are not perfect, and are corrupt. There is no such thing as a non-selfish government. The people are the ones that should be putting them in check. This blackout is for the word to spread about what people think is not right. Look at what Wikipedia is. A non-profit site. A NON-PROFIT SITE. Read that. They don't even have advertisements. They live off of people's donations. They have nothing to gain from this other than educating people about SOPA. I'm all for it if it sends people the message. Everyone must understand that things start from a beginning, and progress from there. If SOPA or PIPA happen without a fight simply because of ignorance from the general public, things will only get worse.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was a trick to try and cancel the blackout. The sheeple of america need to stay as uninformed as possible on current events. The government will need their full support to attack Iran for no reason.
They're still moving ahead with SOPA, and the blackout is still on. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/sopa-livesand-mpaa-calls-protests-an-abuse-of-power.ars Also, Google is joining the blackout. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/google-scribd-and-wordpress-to-join-sopa-protest.ars
OK here's something that tries to describe PIPA (vimeo sucks... try IE8) http://player.vimeo.com/video/31100268?byline=0&portrait=0 here is the full thing, and a petition to sign too http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/
CM9 alpha for touchpad came out today. I died a little inside when I noticed that cyanogenmod also is on blackout today.. but then I remembered the devs for the cm port on touchpad actually post on rootzwiki rather than using the official cm site or xda. muhahaha
This is making front page news today so the blackout is serving its purpose. The corporate controlled media outlets are covering it pretty much how you would expect, saying it's a feeble attempt and so on, and focusing on piracy while barely mentioning the censorship aspect of it.
It had been buried by the US press up until this point. If you didn't read tech sites, you wouldn't have known about it.
Multiple politicians have dropped support of this already. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2012/01/sopa-blackout-sopa-and-pipa-lose-three-co-sponsors-in-congress.html
Of course they have. The blackout has made people pissed, and they're afraid they won't get reelected.
They seem to be backing down on SOPA and PIPA...for now. But I wouldn't take this as a victory. These fuckheads will still try to get this passed in some form at some point. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/pipa-support-collapses-with-13-new-opponents-in-senate.ars
It went on today. But I think most sites are back up now that it got the intended response from the government. People apparently can't go a few hours without reddit and wikipedia without going nuts.
It must've been a short blackout. I tried Wikipedia a few times over the last ~20 hours just to see the blackout. I missed it.
It's still going on. Did you search for a wiki article? It won't show up unless you get your search result. Then after that, the SOPA info page pops up covering your article result.