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Wikipedia English Language Blackout


So it's like they shut down their servers for maintenance one more day than normal this year.
Wuppty doo...
That'll make me.......look at Cracked.com all day?

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I cant look at cracked from work... I will be bored.


You'll survive. It's one day.

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I might survive.


Screencap 1000 subjects.

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I hope I'm not expected to know anything that day.

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Two tangents removed . . .


Looks like they'll have to make it a protest of PIPA, because SOPA has been moth-balled for the time being: SOPA Dead?


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I want a days' worth of my donations back.
Fricking single out the English speaking world, a big percent of which has nothing to do with it.
If they had any c.o. jones, they'd shut down the WHOLE of wikipedia from English to Xhosa to whatever else they had for a whole month.


Excellent, SOPA is dead, and likely won't be resurrected by Congress.

The entertainment companies pushed hard for it, not giving a damn about freedom of speech, because they know the Internet is signaling the doom of copyright law, at least in its present form. Disney can't hold on to Mickey Mouse forever.

But the internet really put a stop to SOPA, and Obama, who needs some love from voters, made it clear he would veto. The CEO of GoDaddy supported it and 70,000 users switched to other domain registration services...that fool learned his lesson in 24 hours. Reddit also campaigned against it.

The Internet is too big a constituency now, the politicians can't stop it. You can't put the toothpaste back in the YouTube.

I am not a fan of Obama but he really laid one over Congress this round...well played Mr Soetoro.

Liberty's Edge

A while back, on these very forums, someone said that they got alerts for things like SOPA every year or so, and that they'd go and sign the petition, and nothing would come of it. You told us, dog!


Good show from the Internet and all but money comes out of an ever bigger tube of toothpaste.

http://torrentfreak.com/sopa-is-baaack-120117/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_m edium=twitter

and besides PIPA and PCIP and a host of future bills will clash their with the Internet constiuency before the battle is over.


FYI...

It still lives. Check this out:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/sopa-lives-rep-lamar-smith-to-resume -markup-hearings-in-february/

My personal blog and my family's gaming blog will be blacked out for most of tomorrow, too. I believe that a really strong show is necessary to keep SOPA, PIPA and whatever successors it spawns from gaining ground.


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Muahahaha.. now i can make whatever claims i want and no one can prove me wrong!

The Tea act dropped the price of tea.

We have started wars over fruit.

The boyscouts of america are were founded by a group that sought to subvert democracy and instal a christian military dictatorship.

Gavels are illegal in new york.

In north america, deer kill more people than wolves.

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Just reminding everyone, today's the day, please let us all stand together to support freedom of information and kill SOPA and PIPA.


Why? Our policitians have been bought and paid for. They have no need to listen to us when we listen to the negative ads bought and paid for by the corporations.

The only thing that could stop this bill is the courts. You can usually count on the judiciary branch to vote in favor of its own importance, and the bill currently cuts the judiciary branch out of the picture by letting the executive act without a warrent. No judge, republican or democrat, likes having their own power curtailed.


BigNorseWolf wrote:

Muahahaha.. now i can make whatever claims i want and no one can prove me wrong!

The Tea act dropped the price of tea.

We have started wars over fruit.

The boyscouts of america are were founded by a group that sought to subvert democracy and instal a christian military dictatorship.

Gavels are illegal in new york.

In north america, deer kill more people than wolves.

I'm not sure about the gavels, and I'm not sure about the boy scouts but wouldn't be surprised, but I'm pretty sure the other three are true.


Wikipedia blackout = annoyance. And that's about it.

At my job I come up against all kinds of odd medical condition names. Wikipedia is the easiest way to get an idea of what they actually are/ mean. Most other sites make you wade through A LOT more information to get the gist.

Meh. At least it will be back tomorrow.


You can access the pages on mobile devices or by disabling javascript.

It was never the organization's goal to lock people out of wikipedia, just to create a somewhat-unavoidable statement about the legislation.


And that workaround in and of itself tells you why SOPA and PIPA will even be able to achieve their stated goals. The technology aware and persistent can, with time, bypass almost any kind of lockout. Short of physically cutting every connection with outside world there will be ways around blocks.

What sad is that even with these blocks (and "my" workarounds message so we can keep students running along) my coworkers still don't know what SOPA is about.

Maybe we need screaming flashing banner ads in loud annoying male voices. Like "Congratulations, this site was block by the house bill Stop Online Piracy now because some jerk linked to PirateBay as a source in the PirateBay article!"

Personally I'm quite tickled that if I caught someone singing Happy Birthday over TeamSpeak, Skype, or various game interal chat systems, and then report it to the Time Warner and have the whole system blocked... if SOPA passes. Muh hah ha, finally I can bring down Xbox Live by goading some kids into singing Happy Birthday and then submitting a complaint. I be trolling! :p


But, since the rules are unenforceable, we can expect they will be selectively enforced, which is a whole lot scarier.


Hey, more fun for the trolling. We can start an off shore betting pool as to which complaint gets acted on first. Like making a pool on marriages and baby birth dates, but with even more anger and grief for the afflicted.

Hum... minecraft.net maintains a list of active servers, which may or may not contain unauthorized replicas of the Starship Enterprise.

If they pass I shall dub this Schrodinger's SOPÆ Troll. File complaints based on what various user content based sites and services "could" be violating and see what sticks.


Dorje Sylas wrote:

Hey, more fun for the trolling. We can start an off shore betting pool as to which complaint gets acted on first. Like making a pool on marriages and baby birth dates, but with even more anger and grief for the afflicted.

Hum... minecraft.net maintains a list of active servers, which may or may not contain unauthorized replicas of the Starship Enterprise.

If they pass I shall dub this Schrodinger's SOPÆ Troll. File complaints based on what various user content based sites and services "could" be violating and see what sticks.

Now I understand why monkeys throw poo


I, for one, salute these brave defenders of freedom. Huzzah!


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Chris Dodd whines like a little baby.

Only days after the White House and chief sponsors of the legislation responded to the major concern expressed by opponents and then called for all parties to work cooperatively together, some technology business interests are resorting to stunts that punish their users or turn them into their corporate pawns, rather than coming to the table to find solutions to a problem that all now seem to agree is very real and damaging.

Only damaging to your bottom line Chris, and I don't care about your bottom line.

It is an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely on them for information and use their services. It is also an abuse of power given the freedoms these companies enjoy in the marketplace today.

You never had a problem with it when you had the greater power and exercised it to enforce your will Chris.

A so-called “blackout” is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals.

Copyright law is out of date Chris, technology is changing the world and you can't stop it.

But you are correct, boy did Congress get punished.

It is our hope that the White House and the Congress will call on those who intend to stage this “blackout” to stop the hyperbole and PR stunts and engage in meaningful efforts to combat piracy.”

You hope in vain. Obama is in office because of social networking. He saw what was coming, which is why he got out of the way. The Internet is too powerful Chris, more people use it then watch movies. All that money you spent paying off Congress was wasted.


I find it funny that he calls them out for "not coming to the table," considering that the bill was written without consulting anyone with any expertise in the matter, as far as I know. Saw a clip on The Daily Show where the Senators were discussing PIPA and the ones hesitant to take a vote on it were suggesting they get some experts to come in and look over the bill and see if it could be changed for the better. I'd probably have respect for those Senators if they hadn't kept using the word "nerds" instead of "experts."


Shadowborn wrote:
I find it funny that he calls them out for "not coming to the table," considering that the bill was written without consulting anyone with any expertise in the matter, as far as I know. Saw a clip on The Daily Show where the Senators were discussing PIPA and the ones hesitant to take a vote on it were suggesting they get some experts to come in and look over the bill and see if it could be changed for the better. I'd probably have respect for those Senators if they hadn't kept using the word "nerds" instead of "experts."

If it prevents them from acting as the enforcement arm for the MPAA I'm sure the experts would happy to show up in pocket protectors, taped glasses, and their virginity.


BigNorseWolf wrote:


If it prevents them from acting as the enforcement arm for the MPAA I'm sure the experts would happy to show up in pocket protectors, taped glasses, and their virginity.

We do that anyway.


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BigNorseWolf wrote:

In north america, deer kill more people than wolves.

Damn straight.


BigNorseWolf wrote:

Muahahaha.. now i can make whatever claims i want and no one can prove me wrong!

The Tea act dropped the price of tea.

We have started wars over fruit.

The boyscouts of america are were founded by a group that sought to subvert democracy and instal a christian military dictatorship.

Gavels are illegal in new york.

In north america, deer kill more people than wolves.

You got one correct, if you factor in fatalities from car collisions with deer, and the tangential effects of Lyme disease from deer ticks.


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You got one correct, if you factor in fatalities from car collisions with
deer, and the tangential effects of Lyme disease from deer ticks.

They're all correct (mostly), that's the joke. All quotes from our beloved wiki now that its back up.

The tea act: The Tea Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its principal overt objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses. A related objective was to undercut the price of tea smuggled into Britain's North American colonies

We have started wars over fruit.

In 1954, the democratically elected Guatemalan government of Colonel Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán was toppled by U.S.- backed forces led by Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas[9] who invaded from Honduras. Assigned by the Eisenhower administration, this military opposition was armed, trained and organized by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency[10] (see Operation PBSUCCESS). The directors of United Fruit Company (UFCO) had lobbied to convince the Truman and Eisenhower administrations that Colonel Arbenz intended to align Guatemala with the Soviet Bloc.

United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was an avowed opponent of Communism, whose law firm Sullivan and Cromwell had represented United Fruit.[14] His brother Allen Dulles was the director of the CIA, and a board member of United Fruit. United Fruit Company is the only company known to have a CIA cryptonym. The brother of the Assistant Secretary of State for InterAmerican Affairs John Moors Cabot had once been president of United Fruit. Ed Whitman, who was United Fruit’s principal lobbyist, was married to President Eisenhower's personal secretary, Ann C. Whitman.[14]

The boyscouts of america are were founded by a group that sought to subvert democracy and instal a christian military dictatorship.

-Pro tip. When interviewing for a job with the federal government and you're ask if you've ever been a member of a group that sought to overthrow the united states? Do not explain this one.

The business plot

In November 1934, Butler told the New York Evening Post and a congressional subcommittee that representatives of powerful industrial interests and the American Legion were trying to induce him to lead the Legion in a campaign to preserve the gold standard and to engineer a coup against President Roosevelt with Butler's aid in marshaling the support of veterans. Everyone implicated denied involvement and the press gave the story little credence. Nevertheless, Butler's charges, elaborated by articles in the Communist newspaper New Masses, gave birth to an enduring conspiracy theory, known as the Business Plot, that powerful business interests in alliance with the Legion planned to overthrow the federal government.[48] Linky

The legion has been a major supporter of the boyscouts since its inception.

Gavels are illegal in new york.

New York - Penal Law Section 265.01. A person is guilty of
criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree when:
(1) He possesses any firearm, electronic dart gun, electronic stun
gun, gravity knife, switchblade knife, pilum ballistic knife, metal
knuckle knife, cane sword, billy, blackjack, bludgeon, metal knuckles,
chuka stick, sand bag, sandclub, wrist-brace type slingshot or
slungshot, shirken or "Kung Fu star"; or

Merriam Websters definition of a bludgeon 1: a short stick that usually has one thick or loaded end and is used as a weapon

In north america, deer kill more people than wolves.

Deer accidents is pretty obvious. But they also occasionally kill people on their own- usually the same way deaths by wolves occur: in captivity. There's been MAYBY one case of a wild healthy wolf killing someone in north america that didn't involve rabies. Rabies killed i think one person. Rat bites have killed more people.


Wolves are much more aggressive in Europe.


Chris Dodd wrote:

Chris Dodd whines like a little baby.

It is an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely on them for information and use their services. It is also an abuse of power given the freedoms these companies enjoy in the marketplace today.

Did anyone else take that as a not-so-veiled threat against the sites who protested? The Internet community did a wonderful job re-defining "santorum" (NSFW if you must Google that)... I wonder what the new definition of "dodd" might become? ;)

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And right now, SOPA and PIPA aren't dead. If anyone reading wants to do more, there are steps you can take to make your voice heard. Make sure your elected officials understand you will hold them responsible for these crappy bills when they are next up for re-election.

DO EEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!!

Liberty's Edge

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It's nasty:

New Dodd definition:
The taste one has in their mouth after giving a rimjob first thing in the morning before brushing your teeth.

Liberty's Edge

BTW, I'm glad my states Kitt Bond flipped on it after being a sponsor. Still, it shows that he didn't have our backs to begin with. I hope he learns big time from his little mistake...


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Ambrosia Slaad wrote:
The Internet community did a wonderful job re-defining "santorum"

Dan Savage.

Give credit where credit is due.


meatrace wrote:
Ambrosia Slaad wrote:
The Internet community did a wonderful job re-defining "santorum"

Dan Savage.

Give credit where credit is due.

Yes, Savage and his readers coined it and put up the site. But it wouldn't come up so high in the Google results if all those Internet millions didn't click on it to raise the analytics score.


Ambrosia Slaad wrote:
meatrace wrote:
Ambrosia Slaad wrote:
The Internet community did a wonderful job re-defining "santorum"

Dan Savage.

Give credit where credit is due.
Yes, Savage and his readers coined it and put up the site. But it wouldn't come up so high in the Google results if all those Internet millions didn't click on it to raise the analytics score.

Spreadingsantorum.com was the top result for Santorum YEARS ago. Because Rick Santorum was a nobody who most people hadn't heard of before he decided to run for president. Regardless, it was Savage (and his readers) who redefined Santorum, not the internet at large.

I dunno, your logic would be that no creative entities deserve credit for their creations because they wouldn't be popular if it weren't for masses being attracted by it.

*shrug*


Who wants to start the TasteofDodd website?

"I love the taste of Dodd in the morning."

"This catfish tastes like Dodd."

"This limburger cheese smells like Dodd."


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Herpderpedia

NSFW strong language


Geistlinger wrote:

Herpderpedia

NSFW strong language

This is hilarious. If they had been authentically using Wikipedia with regularity, they would have all seen the same banner ad as the rest of us did that the 24 hour 'black out' was forthcoming.

Second, it was an easy thing to bypass simply by hitting the ESC to interrupt the javascript code that launched you to the black-out page. While a lot of the anger is misplaced, it is only the tip of the iceberg for what really could happen if such broad-reaching legislation was put in place given the nature of USA's litigious-prone society.

P.S. Again, so much lulz reading that. Thanks. :)


A friend of mine pointed me to this Maddox post. I stopped reading his stuff a while ago, but he makes some excellent points here. Simply put, that SOPA/PIPA will pass in one form or another is an inevitability. It will slip in through riders, during recesses, etc. Just very quietly next time.


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Generic Villain wrote:
A friend of mine pointed me to this Maddox post. I stopped reading his stuff a while ago, but he makes some excellent points here. Simply put, that SOPA/PIPA will pass in one form or another is an inevitability. It will slip in through riders, during recesses, etc. Just very quietly next time.

That's how they do ya.


"In some form or another" is the key. Public pressure does affect what form passes. Some expansion of the governments ability to stop online piracy will pass. That's not a bad thing.

The question is will it be broad enough to shut down entire sites on accusation or prevent any user posts/content for fear of infringement.
There are some big players on the right side in this fight. That makes it harder to slip through. They've got people paid to pay attention.

We don't need to just give up.


They tried to slip it through this time. The vast number of people commenting in Geistlinger's link had no clue what happened or why. Most probably didn't even read the page that was put up during the blackout. Since the SOPA/PIPA bills are backed by the major media companies, which run the news, there was little to no coverage about the bill, hence limited public awareness of them.


And despite that, major internet campaigns and enough public pressure to scuttle it for now.


meatrace wrote:
*shrug*

{boggles} I'm trying to diagram how you and I have gotten such wildly divergent meanings from what was posted here... and completely failing.

Do they give out achievement awards for confusing a slaad? :)


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Ambrosia Slaad wrote:
Do they give out achievement awards for confusing a slaad? :)

I thought confusion was the default state for slaadi.

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@Meatrace: ????????????????????????????????????

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