SOPA blackouts

[LigH]

To protest against the "Stop Online Piracy Act", the english Wikipedia will be disabled today.

English Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout

There are more websites joining this protest, like the doom9 forum, offering US representatives contacts and more information about this topic.

Would PlaneShift be affected too, if SOPA was agreed to?

[Minks]

It seems the evil internet pirates are not the only critics of this proposal. According to the dpa (major german press agency), the US gouvernment also doesn't like it, and critical voices are even beginning to arise from the conservatives.
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/0,1518,809742,00.html

*hopes*

[Catlemur]

I voted on wikipedia already.

[Aramara Meibi]

Yes PS will be affected, because it offers a free product and steals from the potential revenue of other MMORPGs

Unlimited and unrestricted information exchange and free expression is bad. Government is good. God Bless America.

[Gilrond]

Everyone on the Internet will be affected if something like SOPA passes. But SOPA is just a hint of what's really coming. A very good talk from Cory Doctorow on the subject:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg

[lilura]

Wired.com has blacked out the headlines on their website homepage as well [but you can still view the stuff]
If you want to join the strike you can go to http://sopastrike.com/#how-to-strike or just google it .. 
Tumblr even has an option for people to black out their tumblr pages

[Gilrond]

SOPA explained: http://www.khanacademy.org/video/sopa-and-pipa?playlist=American+Civics

[Gilrond]

Looks like the opposition is gaining momentum:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/pipa-support-collapses-with-13-new-opponents-in-senate.ars

[bilbous]

Thank goodness they are gone, I was suffering from withdrawal. Please tell me we will never fight again, Internet!

[LigH]

Oh, don't applaud too early. Such acts are usually postponed, changed, and re-offered when you least expect it.

Seductive the force is. The sheep elect their butcher; subsequent complains are futile.

[Aramara Meibi]

Only a butcher could run for office.

RP2012

[Gilrond]

Some fun fiction related to the subj: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

[Nikodemus]

Scarry future in that fiction Gilrond
I been on my first protest ever coz of ACTA
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16757611
(no parlament was blown up in the process ;p)

but i'm sort of suprised that no other country in Europe protested this way.

And yes, I did not forget about Planeshift!

[Earowo]

Is it even legal for sopa to take place, the internet isnt owned by any one country.
You would think a bill like that, could only take place in the country that passed it.
And even then, how would they moniter it?
[We could all move to antarctica and have freedom of internet >.>]

[Gilrond]

I been on my first protest ever coz of ACTA
...
but i'm sort of suprised that no other country in Europe protested this way.

At least some Polish politicians have a sense of humor 



Btw, found another nice piece from J. P. Barlow: A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace. It was written 16 years ago, but it's very fitting for the present as well.

Is it even legal for sopa to take place, the internet isnt owned by any one country.

They will always try to take as much power as we are willing to give them.