rajncajn Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Just went to look something up on Wikipedia and got this message: Imagine a WorldWithout Free Knowledge For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia. Learn more. Contact your representatives. Your ZIP code: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh 0ne Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Yep, all over the news yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh 0ne Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Workaround: Go to google, enter a search item in Google's search box, click on the double gray arrow that appears when you hold your mouse on the right side of the search results. When the snapshot shows up on the right, click on "cache" and you will be directed to the latest snapshot of your search item in Wikipedia. This will be from yesterday, so not 100% updated I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajncajn Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 Workaround: Go to google, enter a search item in Google's search box, click on the double gray arrow that appears when you hold your mouse on the right side of the search results. When the snapshot shows up on the right, click on "cache" and you will be directed to the latest snapshot of your search item in Wikipedia. This will be from yesterday, so not 100% updated I guess. Now Google has joined in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chester Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Google stills works, they've just blacked out their logo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrTed46 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 If this bill passes I will be shocked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SayItAintSoJoe Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 It looks like these blackouts are having some affect. Freshman Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, a rising Republican star, was first out of the starting gate Wednesday morning with his announcement that he would no longer back anti-Internet piracy legislation he had co-sponsored. Don’t you just love it when politicians withdraw support from bills they originally sponsored? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaterMan Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 (edited) But Metallica needs their money. That's why this has got to pass. https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/ Edited January 18, 2012 by WaterMan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godtomsatan Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Don’t you just love it when politicians withdraw support from bills they originally sponsored? Yeah, especially when the legislation was crafted and pushed by former Democratic Senator Chris Dodd, who is now the CEO of the MPAA (the movie folks), News Corp. owned by Rupert Murdoch, a Republican Congressman from Texas, and a Democratic Senator from Vermont. We already have laws on the books to protect copywritten material. We don't need new laws, especially ones that more or less are aimed at prosecuting "aiders and abetters" instead of the "criminals". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yo mama Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Yeah, especially when the legislation was crafted and pushed by former Democratic Senator Chris Dodd, who is now the CEO of the MPAA (the movie folks), News Corp. owned by Rupert Murdoch, a Republican Congressman from Texas, and a Democratic Senator from Vermont. We already have laws on the books to protect copywritten material. We don't need new laws, especially ones that more or less are aimed at prosecuting "aiders and abetters" instead of the "criminals". I'm on Wiki's side of this issue, but their blackout is only making me irritated with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godtomsatan Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 I'm on Wiki's side of this issue, but their blackout is only making me irritated with them. I know, I'm all snowed in and can't edit entries today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaP'N GRuNGe Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 But Metallica needs their money. That's why this has got to pass. https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/ Reminded me of this classic.... http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=%...T6lbE&gl=US NSFW language Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddahj Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaP'N GRuNGe Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 (edited) I haven't read much on this yet but I did hear earlier today that the blow back was probably going to kill the bill. I also heard tea party darling and frequent GOP VP candidate mention Marco Rubio was one of the cosponsors which I thought was pretty interesting given the whole we hate big brother government schtick the tea party usually espouses. Edited January 19, 2012 by CaP'N GRuNGe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa Majoris Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 It looks like these blackouts are having some affect. Don’t you just love it when politicians withdraw support from bills they originally sponsored? Yeah, especially when the legislation was crafted and pushed by former Democratic Senator Chris Dodd, who is now the CEO of the MPAA (the movie folks), News Corp. owned by Rupert Murdoch, a Republican Congressman from Texas, and a Democratic Senator from Vermont. We already have laws on the books to protect copywritten material. We don't need new laws, especially ones that more or less are aimed at prosecuting "aiders and abetters" instead of the "criminals". They've done the math. The math involves a simple equation as to which side will give them more money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaterMan Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/19/tech/sopa-bl....html?hpt=us_c2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delusions of grandeur Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 I just gotta say I'm shocked that only Paul was speaking out against this and the NDAA prior to this blackout. A pretty sad state of affairs in this country when we have to rely on the internet to be the 4th estate, that ironically is being threatened as a check-and-balance with this bill (anyone who thinks that the precedent of blacklisting websites based on "complaints" without proof or due process is aimed at eliminating piracy, is nutty...) Now I just wish there were some billion dollar media outlets that actually gave a crap about publicizing Americans being assassinated and detained infinitely without habeus corpus rights. I know SOPA is just a matter of billionaires fighting billionaires, but still pretty proud that the internet moguls were able to effectively stop this BS bill in it's tracks by just 1 day of awareness of what's quietly being voted on by our representatives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaterMan Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Never would I thought back in '98 that Google would be used for political protest. I guess our system is just that corrupt right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaterMan Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 4.5 million signed the petition in one day. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology...a-petition.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaterMan Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Sorry my edit button is broken. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d83...114af970c-popup So if you bought a PS3 with a Visa card, you really helped to censor the internet. Go us! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godtomsatan Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 So if you bought a PS3 with a Visa card, you really helped to censor the internet. Go us! I'm daft. Explain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajncajn Posted January 20, 2012 Author Share Posted January 20, 2012 I'm daft. Explain. I'm glad I'm not the only one. Big John is WAY smartur than me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TitansFan Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 I'm daft. Explain. I'm glad I'm not the only one. Big John is WAY smartur than me. I believe what he's referring to is Sony and VISA are listed as supporters of the bill(s) in the link he posted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaterMan Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 that's it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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