Wikipedia to blackout in protest of SOPA

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative


Good on them, and it seems the way things are going that SOPA/PIPA will never see the light of day.

I'm so glad they're actually going to do it.

^Would you consider blacking out in protest?

http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012 ... n-blackout

redit and wiki are doing black outs, i herd some were google was thinking about it to. we should to imo

i dont completely understand this. censorship is bad yes, i vaguely gather that wikipedia uses international sources. but i am having a little trouble wraping my mind around the scope of this. could someone give an example of a consequence were the bill to be passed?

SOPA and PIPA will be back, maybe slightly watered down but still malicious in intent. Basically it's the "Door-in-the-face technique" they're trying here. This is where you introduce a horrendous offer that people will reject immediately but upon the second offer, it'll sound better (but it will be the same product if you get what I mean).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique

This is definitely a big concern for sites like Wrong Planet.

The law would make it impossible from a logistical standpoint to manage any sort of large user generated forum site like this.

I am pleased to see that some of the hyperbole has been ratcheted down. (Though not all, it seems).

Free speech advocates on the internet will, however, still have to reconcile themselves to how they propose to accommodate the fact that there is no free speech interest in ideas owned by others. The Supreme Court was crystal clear that copyrights, trademarks and broadcast rights are an accpetable infringement of free expression. It is all well and good to complain that current legislative proposals go to far (and they do).

But it is not acceptable to argue that the internet can or should be a place in which the interests of the owners of copyrights and broadcast licensees can be eradicated.

I have yet to see an opponent of SOPA and PIPA acknowledge those rights and propose how they can be respected.

WP Internet Boycott: DO NOT use the internet on the 18th to show solidarity! Don't use computers, smart phones, or any other means of internet access. Keep your computers and phones turned off all day. Unplug in protest. Pass it around.

Visagrunt, maybe what we could do is set up a clearinghouse, like ASCAP is for musicians, so that the biggest sites could pay fees to it for "blanket use" of copyrighted material.