Should we go on strike?

[Pete]

In the light of what is happening to Richard O'Dwyer and the US copyright laws, should we go on strike on Wednesday 18th?

"On Jan 24th, Congress will vote to pass internet censorship in the Senate, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed. We need to kill the bill - PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House - to protect our rights to free speech, privacy, and prosperity. We need internet companies to follow Reddit's lead and stand up for the web, as we internet users are doing every day."

I think this is a cause worth supporting.

http://sopastrike.com/

[christa]

For whatever it's worth, all our sites, both commercial and personal, are going dark on
January 18.
Although there was a small victory yesterday when the DNS bit was withdrawn from the
bill all together. In other words, it's not suggested any more that domain registrars should
be responsible and block domains that contains any kind of illegally used copyrighted material.

This bill is nothing but junk. No independent research was done about the cause and effect, at
least none where money didn't change owner, and the congressman who wrote this knows zero
about the technology and what makes Internet spin.
 

[Slacker]

Would be a good idea but only if the big ones join. Google, Facebook, Ebay, Amazon...

Somehow can't see it.

Like several people have already said, it'd easy to search Google for the information that TV Shack was publishing, seems all he was guilty of was a bit of tidying up.

[christa]

Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, AOL, Tumblr, Google and many more already agreed to
go down on 18/1. Click the link in Pete's post above. There's a link at the bottom of the list of
"Sites going on strike" where you can see a full unfiltered list of striking sites.

[christa]

This is what Google search looks like in the US today. Over here the only change is the link below the search box.

[Pete]

Wikipedia goes black for 24 hours in protest against SOPA

[christa]

And MPAA label the SOPA blackout "an abuse of power" without even a hint of irony:

Ars Technica /

[Pete]

"Political support for controversial online anti-piracy legislation appeared to be crumbling on Wednesday as leading websites staged an unprecedented one-day protest against the measures.

Wikipedia, the sixth most-visited website on the planet, pulled its English site offline Wednesday in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa), which is currently pasing though the House of Representatives, and the Protect IP Act (Pipa), a similar bill under debate in the Senate.

Other tech giants, including popular news sharing site Reddit, also pulled the plug while Google censored its name."