Well, Rudi, there are degrees of blacking out websites. Those concerned with SEO for instance are using javascript devices to fool spiders, or just showing banners. or ribbons, or click through screens.<div><br></div><div>
There are, for instance, a number of wordpress plugins
<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/sopa">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/sopa</a> and you can fix your twitter avatar at
<a href="http://www.blackoutsopa.org/">http://www.blackoutsopa.org/</a> <br><div><br></div><div>There are a variety of options listed for support at <a href="http://americancensorship.org/">http://americancensorship.org/</a> including a petition precisely for foreigners. And I see that page currently has 811k facebook likes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It has been a holiday in the USA today. Judging from concern I've seen from regular users, this could be pretty widespread, I expect it to pick up a lot of momentum over the course of the day.</div>
<div><br></div><div> j</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Rudi Vansnick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rudi.vansnick@isoc.be">rudi.vansnick@isoc.be</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Dear colleagues,<div><br></div><div>I'm just wondering if blacking out websites is a good idea. If I'm not wrong they don't harm the US by doing this. We should rather black out access to USA official sites too protest the SOPA, inverse what they want to do and use it against them. But that's also something we can not do without access providers. Thus, not feasible ! And so we are back to point zero. What can be done to stop decisions as there are : HADOPI, SOPA, ... ?</div>
<div><br></div><div>The initial reason of the actions has pretty much to do with criminality. The good ones pay for the actions of the bad ones and that's something that happens also outside the internet world. How to counter this is an issue that will not really be solved by SOPA and other decisions and that is what we should try to defend as position and make clear to law makers. At least that's my personal opinion.</div>
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