The Wash Post has a short list of some of the best anti-SOPA protests. Can readers do me a kindness and list some of the other good anti-SOPA protests out there? The more alarming or creative, the better.
WashPo lists these:
Wired.com, Wikipedia, Grrenpeace.org, Mashable and (sorta) Google.
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The irony is that most of these behemoths support Net Neutrality which in my mind could also lead us to a slow censorship of the internet.
Thank goodness for the Hackerspace Global Grid initiative. http://shackspace.de/wiki/doku.php?id=project:hgg
http://www.schneier.com
http://www.reddit.com
Most sites seem to be providing an overview of what is going on, as well as a call to action (send protests to Congress.)
Sites powered by Wordpress, such as (www.libertarianstandard.com) seem to have the option of an anti-SOPA plug-in – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sopa-blackout-plugin/ -that redirects visitors.
What’s interesting is that many protestors are not anti-IP, but are arguing that SOPA and PIPA won’t be effective against piracy.
Well that’s dumb.
Yes, it’s kinda dumb, but this is a good time to make arguments against IP. As technology advances, it’s going to be harder and harder to enforce IP law without clear infringement on individual rights. These “rogue” forces are so incentivized to circumvent copyright that they will continue to innovate their way around anything short of draconian regulation and intensive monitoring reminiscent of police states, and even that may not be enough.
Maybe so the dying SOPA can be re-introduced later as a new, more effective bill?
oatmeal.com
I can still purchase all the oatmeal I like at oatmeal.com, it seems. On the other hand, THEoatmeal.com is indeed blacked out.
there we go, good call
Wordnik does a good job. http://www.wordnik.com/
I list some here:
http://blog.mises.org/20563/the-best-and-most-creative-anti-sopa-protests/
Stephan, the link leads back to this site.
woops http://c4sif.org/2012/01/sopa-blackout-wednesday/
none of these protests are any good at all. they simply deny to the average user visibility of the content requested by means of javascript, while delivering the content to the browser, anyway.
what that means is that any power user can just tweak his noscript (or similar) settings to temporarily disable the blackout, and other javascript, on these sites. (try it on wikipedia. i know i’ll be reading articles all day.)
rabble-rousing for the masses. business as usual for the elite. now where have i heard screaming and whining about that before? oh. yes. zuccotti park.
Try
http://www.osnews.com
Hey, that was pretty neat!
Wikipedia says in their FAQ that they aren’t trying to block it if you really want to get to it. In fact they tell you how to work around it.
http://arstechnica.com/
Nice graphics..
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/01/sopa-blackout-spreads-across-the-internet.ars
here is an example of a website that actually changed its content in protest: http://www.reddit.com/
this is effective.
Fred Wilson’s AVC blog and Pearltrees are two off the top of my head. I’ve seen many small examples.
The protest at
http://www.osnews.com
is pretty neat. Nice effect.
http://www.freepatriot-press.com/2012/01/why-free-patriot-press-will-not-be.html
Many sites, including Google, Wikipedia, reddit, WordPress and many others, will being “going black” to protest the proposed anti-piracy bills SOPA & PIPA.
While I respect those who are “going black” in protest; I decided that Free Patriot Press will remain “live” as long as possible in an attempt to further the mission of ensuring a FREE PRESS for the FREEDOM MOVEMENT!
In solidarity with those “going black” I have blacked out my logo and have a pop-up that asks visitors to sign an anti-SOPA petition.
I’m using a script from http://americancensorship.org/ to black out the logo.
From AntiWar.com
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2012/01/17/sopa-and-why-were-not-blacked-out/
Antiwar.com backs the blackout protests fully, and we absolutely, unequivocally condemn this hideous bill. But we can’t join in the protest itself. There is simply too much going on in the world to give the War Party a break from our 24/7 scrutiny. And goodness knows they won’t be taking a break.
The REALLY funny part is that these corporations are engaging in political speech that is permitted because of Citizens United, the same Supreme court case that the left says is eeeeevil because it recognizes that the first amendment applies to corporations as well as individuals.
Does anyone else think that denying users access to your website isn’t the best way to get the government’s attention? Users didn’t draft or sponsor this legislation so why are they being penalized? Your average half-witted Congressman doesn’t even know what any of the geek sites participating in the “blackout” are.
(Yes, I get the logic; it’s supposed to mobilize people to engage their representatives to get them to oppose SOPA and PIPA. It’s the old “democracy in action” scam which I’d think mises.org readers would be a little more skeptical of.)
The point is not to get the government’s attention, it is to get the people’s attention. And it has worked, I think. Now at least most users of the Internet have now at least heard of the problem.
Small producers who make content such as music, art, etc. are up in arms and screaming FOR this law. Poor fools. The point of the law is to give the US gov the power to black out the internet.
In the old media world 90% of those small producers would not be seen at all, at least not beyond a very small local niche. Fools indeed.
all raw story links go to this video: http://www.rawstory.com/stopcensorship.html
here’s the strike home page: http://sopastrike.com/ with a list of participants & instructions to go off the air for 12 hours…needless to say, there are dozens who’ve done so
dailypaul.com has “redacted” text.
Anonymous…
…Too soon?
What this whole SOPA thing has done has proved social democracy really works. The web helped this issue spread like wildfire and within days the world knew that supporting SOPA was a bad idea. I look forward to future events that are controlled by social response.
Nice, but what has any of that got to do with social democracy?
“I hope SOPA passes”
http://maddox.xmission.com/
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