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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 18, 2012 1:45:38 GMT
From our host forum's Facebook Page: Tomorrow, January 18th, ProBoards will be joining Internet giants such as Google, Wikipedia, Reddit, and thousands of other Internet websites in protesting against the Internet censorship bills SOPA and PIPA. All forums that are not ad-free will display a small message at the top of each page for 24 hours.
We encourage you to contact your elected representatives to ensure that the Internet remains an open platform where the web, and forums, can thrive. Censorship is not the way to go.
In advance, we apologize for any inconvenience this small message at the top of your forums will have for this 24 hour period -- but the alternative, a censored Internet, is a far worse scenario.
Please visit www.americancensorship.org for more information.SOPA bill: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_ActBBC explains: www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-1659657771 page document, the full SOPA Bill -- online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204555904577167040770940440.html
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 18, 2012 5:07:40 GMT
I just tried to click on a Wikipedia link & it's apparently started its 24-hour blackout. It's an awful feeling for something we rely on so much to be unavailable. You get a quick glimpse of the Wikipedia article, then it goes to a dark page explaining the blackout. So far there's no message at the top of anyport's pages. That may be programmed to start at midnight California time.
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Post by onlymark on Jan 18, 2012 8:19:27 GMT
I went to a Wiki article and saw the page load for a second then go to the explaining page. I then re-loaded the page again and as soon as the article appeared I clicked on the cross symbol to stop the page reloading further. The article stayed there and I could read it at leisure.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2012 10:03:29 GMT
Actually, it is only English language Wikipedia that is dark today. Other languages are working as normal.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 18, 2012 15:15:52 GMT
Ah -- that works, Mark! On Chrome it's an X, next to the words "stop loading this page".
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Post by auntieannie on Jan 18, 2012 18:04:39 GMT
I am surprised that Youtube doesn't seem to participate in this action as I believe Youtube has a lot to lose (and some of our threads would be much less lively without it!)
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 18, 2012 18:15:00 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2012 21:01:46 GMT
So, did yesterday's protest shake the world? There was practically no mention of it in the international press.
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Post by fumobici on Jan 19, 2012 23:18:06 GMT
Shook my Conresspeople's email servers, that's for sure. It took multiple tries to get through to one and the other was unreachable. I've heard others had similar experiences, I don't think any issue has crashed so many politicians' inboxes before. Nobody wants their internet fucked with except a few very rich media mogols.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 20, 2012 2:16:25 GMT
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Post by rikita on Jan 23, 2012 11:14:04 GMT
So, did yesterday's protest shake the world? There was practically no mention of it in the international press. there was in the newspaper i read... a mention, i mean...
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