[Chapter-delegates] English Wikipedia going dark tomorrow!

[Sivasubramanian M]

Some new positive developments:


   - MASSIVE RESPONSE FROM THE PUBLIC HAS MADE A DIFFERENCE: WHITE HOUSE
   CLEARLY OPPOSES SOPA IN ITS CURRENT FORM


http://isocindiachennai.org/?p=699


Sivasubramanian M



On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
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