[Chapter-delegates] English Wikipedia going dark tomorrow!

[Joly MacFie]

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.

There are, for instance, a number of wordpress plugins
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/sopa and you can fix your twitter
avatar at  http://www.blackoutsopa.org/

There are a variety of options listed for support at
http://americancensorship.org/ including a petition precisely for
foreigners. And I see that page currently has 811k facebook likes.

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.

 j

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Rudi Vansnick <rudi.vansnick at isoc.be>wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> 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, ... ?
>
> 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.
>
>      Rudi Vansnick
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