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More news about wikipedia sopa
« on: January 17, 2012, 09:56:57 PM »
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Google to Join Wednesday Protest Against SOPA
http://socialbarrel.com/google-to-join-wednesday-protest-against-sopa/30569/

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Re: More news about wikipedia sopa
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2012, 10:33:56 PM »

It's 1:25 PM here in Malaysia-the entire English Wikipedia site is blocked. The sites of other languages aren't, though.
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Re: More news about wikipedia sopa
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2012, 01:46:59 AM »
CH is showing support as well.


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Re: More news about wikipedia sopa
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2012, 03:36:14 AM »
If you disable Javascript for Wikipedia it still works.

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Re: More news about wikipedia sopa
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2012, 03:38:59 AM »
Yea, many of the sites are still navigable. As long as what is being done makes people think (and hopefully act) then the message will be a success.

Good link. http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa

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Re: More news about wikipedia sopa
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2012, 09:04:42 AM »
Yea, many of the sites are still navigable. As long as what is being done makes people think (and hopefully act) then the message will be a success.

Good link. http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa

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    Re: More news about wikipedia sopa
    « Reply #6 on: January 18, 2012, 09:08:06 AM »
    Evil,Very easy to comprehend explanation for those that might be wondering what this is all about.truenorth

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    Re: More news about wikipedia sopa
    « Reply #7 on: January 18, 2012, 01:36:06 PM »

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    Re: More news about wikipedia sopa
    « Reply #8 on: January 18, 2012, 01:52:00 PM »
    here is the blurb being served from thedailywtf.com.

    I get the feeling this is supposed to be ironic or sarcasm. (ban HTTP and go back to GOPHER?)
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    Support The Daily *censored* in Supporting the Support SOPA Movement

    It’s January 18, 2012 and, while most of the internet has decided to blackout their sites in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), we’re taking an opposite stance and are whiting-out The Daily *censored* in support of SOPA supporters.

    If there’s one thing that SOPA proponents like myself and SOPA opponents can agree on, it’s that PROTECT-IP and the Stop Online Piracy Act have little to do with protecting intellectual property and stopping online piracy.

    After all, those who choose to steal creative works like the “I Have a Dream” speech from artists like Martin Luther King Jr. can already be sued and prosecuted under existing United States copyright laws. IP thieves living overseas can already be extradited to face justice in our federal courts. And the Department of Homeland Security can already arbitrarily seize domain names that fit its arbitrary standard of violating national something-or-other.

    While these laws will make such acts more illegal (and therefore reduce infringement), they’re doing something much, much more important: helping dismantle DNS and the internet as we know it. And that’s something that we firmly support and can stand by.

    You see, back in the day, if you wanted to get online and access electronically-stored information like digitized photographs, electronic bulletin boards, and informational databanks, there was only one thing you needed: a telephone number. You’d simply fire up your favorite telecommunications program (mine was Telix), have it dial that phone number, and after a refreshing symphony of beeps and hisses, you were online.

    Each phone number transported you to a quaint, peaceful community that was almost entirely self-sufficient. There was no “hyperlinking” between systems: you simply wrote down the phone number, signed-off of the current system, and then dialed into the new system. And let me tell you, there are few experiences in life that can parallel the utter bliss of discovering a new phone number and a new electronic resource.

    And then the Information Superhighway – and its tightly integrated Domain Name System – came along, decimating these peaceful, independent communities. The bulletin boards of old were ground up and churned in the giant “dot com” machine, leaving an interconnected web of domain names. There’s no more “going online” – you’re already online – and if you want to access an electronic resource, you can use a “domain name” like TheDailyWTF.com.

    Domain names are highly confusing in that they not only describe what the electronic resource is, but where it is as well. Nothing else in the world works like this for obvious reasons. Could you imagine the complete confusion in day-to-day things like getting a phone number? Is that “jenny eighty-six dot com” or “jenny eighty-six dot net”? We would be in complete chaos.

    SOPA and PROTECT-IP offer hope in returning to the golden age of telecommunications, and to the days before the Information Superhighway polluted the online culture with this domain name nonsense. Let the Domain Name System a natural death and prepare yourself for the Internet Protocol Number (IPN) renaissance. All you need to do is start a notebook that lists electronic resource names and their corresponding IPN. And let the first entry in your notebook be

        The Daily *censored*      74.50.110.120

    We can only hope that our legislators introduce common sense guidelines to ban HTTP (and HTML/JavaScript) as well so we can all return to the more sensible GOPHER standard.

    Personally, I'm neither for or against it. I can't possibly be expected to have an informed opinion without reading the bill itself. Though a lot of people don't seem to have an issue with that, and just accept blindly the transliterations put forth by people on either side, despite the fact that such "translations" could easily be clouded by their own personal agendas.
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    Re: More news about wikipedia sopa
    « Reply #9 on: January 18, 2012, 01:59:34 PM »
    Here Ya Go...

    It's 72 pages so grab the Adult Beverage of your choice...
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    Re: More news about wikipedia sopa
    « Reply #10 on: January 18, 2012, 02:10:21 PM »
    Here Ya Go...

    It's 72 pages so grab the Adult Beverage of your choice...
    I know it's long. That's why I haven't read it;I don't have time to go throuingh the bills, so the only way to know what they are about would be to read somebody else's "breakdown" it; and I'm not about to base my standpoint on a few possibly biassed cliff's notes/translations of what it says, since any such translation will easily be coloured by the "translators" agenda, and most of the time they aren't lawyers so they could hardly be expected to understand the legal boilerplate and often bring non-existent meaning to the boilerplate legalese you see all over the place.

    Since I don't have the time to read the bills, I prefer to have no opinion at all rather than a uninformed one. That isn't to say that I trust the senators to make the right decision (assuming there is one), just that since I haven't read and interpreted the actual content myself, I don't know where I would stand on the issue. And I'd rather have my own opinion than somebody else's (which is pretty much what you would have if you "pick a side" based on a single persons transliterations). I might browse it idly though, come to think of it.

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    Also, and possibly equally important, since in the long run what I think about the bill and it's contents is redundant and won't matter, it seems wasteful to read that much content just to form one, especially since the subject doesn't interest me. I have no doubt it would affect me but whether I form an opinion now or then isn't going to change that effect. I also suspect that since I'm not in the U.S, much of the effects won't be felt. (the bill can't compel Canadian ISPs to block access to anything).
    I was trying to dereference Null Pointers before it was cool.

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    Re: More news about wikipedia sopa
    « Reply #11 on: January 18, 2012, 02:34:51 PM »
    Obama Kills SOPA.

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    « Reply #12 on: January 18, 2012, 02:36:28 PM »
    Obama Kills SOPA.

    See, he is some use after all!


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    Re: More news about wikipedia sopa
    « Reply #14 on: January 18, 2012, 08:07:59 PM »
    evilfantasy, mass-media says he killed it.
    Technically, Congress can overrule him.  If they have a large majority.

    This is the headline others are repeating:

    Obama Says So Long SOPA, Killing Controversial Internet Piracy Legislation
    Over a dozen sites copy that headline. Here is a recent one:
    http://theamericanaftermathfaction.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/obama-says-so-long-sopa-killing-controversial-internet-piracy-legislation/