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And know one will stand up against it because everyone is so apathetic
It's in the US legislature, so it only applies to the US. An American law cannot be enforced in another sovereign country unless that country enacts the same law.
As I've said before, this law is bullcrap. The internet masses won't stand for this (i.e. Anonymous, 4chan, lulzsec, memebase, etc.). I can only predict a rise in cyber attacks against government websites and against corporate websites, as well as a thriving black market (i.e. the pirate bay). Should this law pass, it'll be a digital prohibition, and it'll get nasty.
I agree with this completely. AND I just realized the first half of this thread was in July!
Also, it would have been awesome if the mods could have changed all of our names or sigs to STOP SOPA or PROTEST or something like that to join the internet protest. It would be similar to the April Fools day, actually.
Last edited by DerTarchin (January 18, 2012 (04:50pm))
Haha, the one day I need wikipedia.
Though if you click on a wiki link on google, then quickly turn off your wifi, and then turn back on, you'll be at the wiki page you need. You're simply just stopping the re-direct to the strike SOPA page. [/small tip]
SOPA and PIPA could have much farther reaching affects than you might think.
Canada and Web Domains
Canada and Global
And here are some great videos about SOPA/PIPA:
PIPA
SOPA
Here are some places to sign petitions:
USA Only
USA Only
Global
I've been tweeting about this all day!
It is far worse than I originally thought. And think about it, has the film and music industry ever liked change? No. They simply don't like the internet as a medium and if this bill passes will try to control as much of the internet as they can. Do wat you can!
Haha, the one day I need wikipedia.
Though if you click on a wiki link on google, then quickly turn off your wifi, and then turn back on, you'll be at the wiki page you need. You're simply just stopping the re-direct to the strike SOPA page. [/small tip]
Just disable javascript. Or wait.
Yes, I could wait, but waiting could actually in fact cost me a letter grade on my project I'm presenting tomorrow. (plus, I didn't think about disabling javascript) 
This is what you do. Go to Google, search whatever it is you need, find the Wiki link to it (it should be one of the top few), then click the little double arrows that give you the mini preview of the website without actually enter it. THEN click "Cached" on that mini preview (up at the top with the URL I think). This is Google-saved version before it turned to a blackout strike thing. This is same for all websites, it makes google search faster.
Yeah, that's what my teacher told us to do. Also, the mobile version of the site works just fine for some reason.
I am serisously so glad all these websites are doing this. I am never going to troll wikipedia again. (Although most of the websites that claim they are blacking out in fact just put a thingy when you go to the homepage and then you go to the regular website, google included. The world would end if Google shut down. Kinda like that episode of the IT crowd where they break the internet 
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i believe some of the themed wikis don't do that
To those who are saying that not having Wikipedia could cost you a letter grade, in my experience, USING Wikipedia can cost you. Wikipedia isn't 100% correct; it's user-edited. With a system like that, there's no way it could EVER be 100% correct. Stephen Colbert explains it pretty well here.
But yeah, most of the college professors I've had hate Wikipedia.
To those who are saying that not having Wikipedia could cost you a letter grade, in my experience, USING Wikipedia can cost you. Wikipedia isn't 100% correct; it's user-edited. With a system like that, there's no way it could EVER be 100% correct. Stephen Colbert explains it pretty well here.
But yeah, most of the college professors I've had hate Wikipedia.
The dude's right, Wikipedia screwed up few of my presentations in the past.
Change your Twitter and Facebook profile picture: http://www.blackoutsopa.org/
Also, petition: http://americancensorship.org/
Wikipedia is an essential starting point in research. It gives us a nice overview of a topic and provides a basic understanding. Once you've done that, scroll down to the bottom and you'll find links to CORRECT(ish) sources that'll give you all the specifics.
Well huh. All my teachers love wikipedia, as long as we use some other sources as well (wikipedia is an encyclopedia, so it doesn't go as in-depth as may be needed)
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Last edited by Riley (August 26, 2024 (09:54am))
ON TOPIC: Last year (2011) over 2,000 bills we're submited into congress. 1,100 of them were passed, so about half were passed last year. The statistics for 2008 numbered 8,000 bills submited, so there's no telling how many bills will be submitted and passed each year.
I don't know a whole lot about how it works in the US, but I would have a feeling that a lot more is submitted and passed when there's a democrat controlled house and senate. When the republicans won control of the house, they would have had a lot more control over what was passed or not, so subsequently fewer bills would have been submitted by the democrats, since they'd know it wouldn't receive bipartisan support.
True dat. I have to definetly agree.
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