Save the Internet: The SOPA/PIPA thread.

[Gwen]

All I know is this black out shit needs to stop. Seriously getting irritating

Besides, it was one day, and it helped spread the message so that even thick skulled people finally got it.
Our Senator was in Madison earlier to discuss this and he said he would oppose it. With all the other Senators and Reps who said they would oppose, along with the PIPA/SOPA website caught copyright infringing material, these bills are quickly losing steam, and today was a big factor in helping that.

There are other ways of 'raising awareness'

Honestly, if it were this big of a worry, wouldn't people have been worrying this constantly about it before yesterday? Then just out of nowhere black outs. Black outs everywhere.

Maybe the censorship could be a good thing. People rely on computer technology far to much these days. If it wasn't there maybe people would actually talk face to face a little more, maybe read a damn book for once

Pull your head out of your ass. How would this help social interaction? It would be censoring of copyrighted material, not social sites. Two, ebooks would still exist as you have to buy those for the most part, unless you pirate them, but plenty of people have kindles/kindleOnPc(me)/etc. It just sounds like you were mad because you couldn't use Wikipedia for one day :L
Also all you had to do was hit the escape button as the page loaded and it would've stopped the banner from popping up. Yesterday needed to happen, it wasn't a big inconvenience, and yeah people were worried about it already, but this helped spread it to become general knowledge. And as a result, many supporters are now backing out. And I talk face to face with friends everyday
EDIT: Considering you read new One Piece chapters every week online, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't like censoring taking that away too :smug:
But seriously, the government has no right censoring the internet, and you're taking it a bit too lightly, it's a pretty serious issue.


Luckily, even if the bill passed, there would be bigger protests than yesterday, and the Supreme Court would probably have something to say on it.