Wikipedia to black out for 24 hours in protest of the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) proposal:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout
Of course you’re late on this, but I’ll take the opportunity to add this little funny bone…
How To Exploit Wikipedia’s Shutdown Wednesday
The US government is absolutely out of control. At this poinit, I wonder if the only solution is a foreign power cutting them down to size by force, as dangerous and terrifying as that would be for me and my family.
Clayton -
I think it’s far more likely that things will get so bad here that people will see the light, or at least some of it. It could be quite a long time though.
Our (small) website will join them in the blackout.
Oh noez!! They’re using their monopoly power to get their way. Quickly, someone call the government!
fml
Barely past midnight and the blackout already caught me…in the most ironic way possible.
I was reading something about SOPA and it occured to me to look up who the author of the bill was…so of course my browser search bar gets switched over to Wikipedia and “SOPA” goes in the textbox. The page pops up, I start to read it, and then I’m hit with…
I don’t think I’ve ever appreciated Wikipedia more.
If you disable javascript, then the script that blacks out the page won’t run.
Yeah I figured that was the only way they could have the normal site show up and then the blackout be basically a popup. But even if people knew how to do that, it would still be a nuisance. (The great part is, everyone who does know how to do that is already up to speed and on board.)
They could also do it with CSS3, but then you would just need to disable CSS.
You know what I mean. They didn’t just have the url redirect to a blackout page, they have the blackout pop up over the normal page using a script instead. My guess is to make it more jarring…like you get to the site and everything’s fine and you start to read and “blam”. Rejected.
It hits people better.
I like that effect.
Press the escape key before the blackout.
I first thought was that the “see the page for two seconds then get blocked”-effect was supposed to imitate the style of how government-censored internet looks, such as China’s big firewall.
I had to disable some of my dodgy pre-caching settings before I noticed there was a “before the blackout”.
Now I feel like an ass.
No. “Press the escape key before the blackout” is actually symbolic for “run away before the government institutes full shutdown mode.”
True story.
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A nice collection of screenshots of [various pages on blackout day](http://s1035.photobucket.com/albums/a438/pics56/sites/SOPA PIPA blackout/).