Wikipedia to join blackout, SOPA opponents gaining momentum
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Minor Axis
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Is this coming from the right or is it bypartisan? I know the House Bill SOPA was introduced by a Republican.
PIPA Video
What You Need To Know @ CBS News.
That's their intention
I had a look at the longer page of information they give and they advise people to do exactly that (or some other option for getting past it). They don't want to restrict access as much as they want everyone who goes to wikipedia to see their message.
That's their intention
That's good, I think
Google sure loves to mess with their logo, so they must have creamed themselves over this chance lol
That's their intention
I never clicked on the longer version explaining more but seeing that, it's good that it wasn't just a half-assed job as I first thought but intentional to just put the message out there as it were.
Can you imagine if Google actually restricted access to their search engine... it would be interesting to see the response. People would probably just look to Bing or other engines I daresay if that happened.
Terrible.
figures it was the repubican'ts.
This sounds like just another way for the 1% to get their hands on more of what the 99% enjoy.
Anony is shut down as well. BTW check out their video on the SOPA. The US is shaking the hornets nest again and they will get stung. Just another example of idiots in power.:
http://anonyops.com/sopa.php
i am glad wiki brought this to thse surface
shows the magnitude of their influence to everyday joes
however as recently as last weekend did the govt not recant and say they would not support such legislation
is this not a dead horse flogging we witness
shows the magnitude of their influence to everyday joes
however as recently as last weekend did the govt not recant and say they would not support such legislation
is this not a dead horse flogging we witness
Reddit blacked itself out for the day, too.
satinbutterfly
Miss Piggy
It's bipartisan supported.
Alien Allen
Froggy the Prick
The senate main sponsor was a democrat
It has asshats on both sides that are for it
Alien Allen
Froggy the Prick
This is a fairly decent write up on it which includes the following:
http://news.yahoo.com/sopa-vs-pipa-anti-piracy-bills-uproar-explained-013507326.html
http://news.yahoo.com/sopa-vs-pipa-anti-piracy-bills-uproar-explained-013507326.html
Embattled Washington: From SOPA to the Debt Ceiling"
Is D.C. winning? Last year, Census data revealed Washington moved past San Jose as the wealthiest U.S. metropolitan area. Meanwhile, we see the House will likely vote today against raising the debt ceiling, which Uncle Sam is once again hitting. It’s purely symbolic: Under the debt-ceiling deal reached last August, the president need merely notify Congress that he’s going to raise it; it’s up to both houses to vote against it. With the Senate under the control of the Democrats, that won’t happen. The $1.2 trillion increase coming soon should be enough to tide over Uncle Sam until… oh, right around Election Day. And that increase would have to be passed the old-fashioned way.
Next crisis, please… “While Washington has spent the last year (and much of the last quarter-century) fighting about the national debt, most of our leaders have blithely ignored America’s staggering level of household debt,” writes American University history professor Andrew Yarrow. Time was Americans observed National Thrift Week along with Ben Franklin’s birthday, which was yesterday. Now Americans are once again raiding their savings to get by. “In an ominous sign for America’s economic growth prospects,” Reuters reported yesterday, with no reference to Ben Franklin, “workers are paring back contributions to college funds and growing numbers are borrowing from their retirement accounts.” Indeed, the savings rate has fallen back to December 2007 levels — right when the official “recession” began."
by Addison Wiggin
"It’s hard to crawl the Internet today without running across something like this…
Wikipedia Blackout Notice:
Wikipedia and several other sites are “blacked out” to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA — an odious piece of legislation that would allow domain names to be erased from the web without due process of law. Accidentally run afoul of the bill’s copyright provisions — an incredibly easy thing to do — and the home page of your website might look something like this:"It’s hard to crawl the Internet today without running across something like this…
Wikipedia Blackout Notice:
Possible Website Block by US Authorities:
Not that this is deterring members of Congress determined to get the bill passed. “Due to the Republican and Democratic retreats taking place over the next two weeks,” says its sponsor, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), “markup of the Stop Online Piracy Act is expected to resume in February.” “It’s D.C. versus Silicon Valley in the SOPA fight,” observes colleague Greg Grillot. “You have Google, Mozila, Wikipedia, Reddit, Firefox and Boing Boing against it. And how many D.C. shills for it It’s a true war: the last bastion of creative/productive ingenuity in America versus the swamp of D.C.’s parasitic, industry-conflicted bureaucracy.”
Is D.C. winning? Last year, Census data revealed Washington moved past San Jose as the wealthiest U.S. metropolitan area. Meanwhile, we see the House will likely vote today against raising the debt ceiling, which Uncle Sam is once again hitting. It’s purely symbolic: Under the debt-ceiling deal reached last August, the president need merely notify Congress that he’s going to raise it; it’s up to both houses to vote against it. With the Senate under the control of the Democrats, that won’t happen. The $1.2 trillion increase coming soon should be enough to tide over Uncle Sam until… oh, right around Election Day. And that increase would have to be passed the old-fashioned way.
Next crisis, please… “While Washington has spent the last year (and much of the last quarter-century) fighting about the national debt, most of our leaders have blithely ignored America’s staggering level of household debt,” writes American University history professor Andrew Yarrow. Time was Americans observed National Thrift Week along with Ben Franklin’s birthday, which was yesterday. Now Americans are once again raiding their savings to get by. “In an ominous sign for America’s economic growth prospects,” Reuters reported yesterday, with no reference to Ben Franklin, “workers are paring back contributions to college funds and growing numbers are borrowing from their retirement accounts.” Indeed, the savings rate has fallen back to December 2007 levels — right when the official “recession” began."
- http://dailyreckoning.com/
Peter Parka
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This whole blackout thing would have a much bigger effect if y**p**n took part. :24:
:24: you're probably right about that. They really should've thought about what the biggest traffic is on the internet. Porn and cats.
There is one, and only one, US presidential candidate who wholeheartedly agrees with this.
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