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SOPA Strike
So a bunch of websites are planning to black out tomorrow in protest.  I say the Government trolls are doing an excellent job at screwing around with the internets (since when did Anon infiltrate the Government?  Oh wait...)

Anyway, sites striking include Wikipedia and Reddit, though interestingly, Youtube & Facebook aren't, despite having showed some interest.

Methinks Wikipedia doing it may have a bit of an effect on the public.  Others are probably negligible.
Personally, I'm much more interested in what actually would happen if it is passed.  Selective enforcement?  Or will lawmakers really try to block half the websites on the net?
16/01/2012 10:50 PM
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All I know is that wee can't let this pass. This is giving these corporations too much power over what they can do on the web. Wikipedia may have some effect but I think a good blow would be if Google and Facebook participated. If those 2 websites went down for even half a day it would raise a lot of awareness.
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Being cynically minded sometimes, I wonder whether that^ implies that Google+Facebook potentially have too much power.

I mean, a democracy means that the country is ruled by the ignorant/dumb masses, which means that whoever has the most influence over the masses effectively has the most power.  And if that's Google+Facebook, then wee are, again, being ruled by corporations.  Just perhaps corps that agree with us this time...
16/01/2012 11:05 PM
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I thought that this was already going to be vetoed by the whitehouse?
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16/01/2012 11:45 PM
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oneddl seems to have predicted something like this would happen, they started advertising its involvement in blockaid a while ago, which is basically a workaround to all this SOPA poo poo. Any reason this wouldn't work? http://www.blockaid.me/
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17/01/2012 01:22 AM
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Twitter think what Wikipedia is doing is daft: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/...523536.cms

Oh dear. Well, if they did end up passing (like the Sinde Law already has here) then it'll probably be one of many countries to follow. That's why it needs to be dealt with.
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If noooo! the internet is the last home for the modern pirate.
I hope hershey kisses sitez do their best not to get shut down.
It would not surprise me if these guys still don't use AOL as their default browser.
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(17/01/2012 01:22 AM)Mickey Wrote:  oneddl seems to have predicted something like this would happen, they started advertising its involvement in blockaid a while ago, which is basically a workaround to all this SOPA poo poo. Any reason this wouldn't work? http://www.blockaid.me/
It should work (assuming their their DNS server doesn't get blocked) though you do kinda have to trust them a fair bit.

Personally don't know much about DNSSEC, but perhaps if they had a DNSSEC resolver (and more people used it) it could solve the trust issue.
17/01/2012 04:35 AM
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