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[Skrillex]

http://www.ibtimes.c...e-wikipedia.htm
http://abcnews.go.co...51#.TxYT0m9SQXs

Many sites are going down temporarily tomorrow in protest of SOPA.

Discuss.

Few sites include
Wikipedia
Mozilla
Reddit
among others.

Edited by Skrillex, 17 January 2012 - 04:38 PM.

[soul__stealer]

Rather then "go dark" they would be better off temporarily blacklisting all government IPs.

[Yung]

I had heard Wikipedia was going down on the radio last night, but I didn't know about the others. I still don't see what this is actually going to accomplish besides being a headache to users.

[Waser Lave]

If Neocodex goes down with any 502 errors tomorrow that's our contribution to the blackout.

[Melchoire]

Google's not blacking out, they're just putting a little link/note about SOPA on their main page.

[Yolo]

I at least still have Memebase and My Little Bronies to waste time tomorrow.

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From the article:
Wikipedia plans to "go dark" in order to protest the bills, meaning that the English version of the site will be down all day tomorrow.

I'm trilingual in Spanish, English, and Tagalog. I'm good.

In dearest regards to the noble endeavors of numerous big brave knights in shining pixels to slay the darkness-spreading dragon, SOPA, I stand with many excessive opinion-expressing college peons when I do declare: FUCK SOPA. I want mah anime! -3-

[Jun]

Extremly good news to me while im in my finals week, and have to search lots of things via google to complete some of my projects. *headdesk*

Edited by Junjun, 17 January 2012 - 05:09 PM.

[Yung]

It is supposed to be just for tomorrow, enjoy the day off or just don't use those sites as references? Wikipedia shouldn't be used for references anyways.

[Jun]

Yung, on 17 January 2012 - 05:14 PM, said:

It is supposed to be just for tomorrow, enjoy the day off or just don't use those sites as references? Wikipedia shouldn't be used for references anyways.

I have lots of works to be completed until Friday, and 1 day without google means much to me. I don't use wikipedia for references but use it to steal and change some definitions. Well, there are other sites to do the same but come on, without google it will be impossible to finish all of my work until Friday

[Kats]

Junjun, on 17 January 2012 - 05:16 PM, said:

I have lots of works to be completed until Friday, and 1 day without google means much to me. I don't use wikipedia for references but use it to steal and change some definitions. Well, there are other sites to do the same but come on, without google it will be impossible to finish all of my work until Friday

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Melchoire, on 17 January 2012 - 04:51 PM, said:

Google's not blacking out, they're just putting a little link/note about SOPA on their main page.

[Jun]

Kats, on 17 January 2012 - 05:23 PM, said:

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Ok i reread the post and i see i failed big, but anyway, cheers for the google! *happy dance* Just topic title confused me

Edited by Junjun, 17 January 2012 - 06:09 PM.

[nyquil]

i don't see how this will really achieve anything. Now if Facebook was shut down and all the senators were unable to avoid their job and play Farmville then all hell would break lose

[Scot]

I recommend this site go dark tomorrow as well, in solidarity of this mass protest.

[Melchoire]

Yung, on 17 January 2012 - 05:14 PM, said:

Wikipedia shouldn't be used for references anyways.

That's an old wive's tale.

[Unseen]

Melchoire, on 17 January 2012 - 06:27 PM, said:

That's an old wive's tale.

Don't reference a referenced article... Ummm why not?

[Yung]

Melchoire, on 17 January 2012 - 06:27 PM, said:

That's an old wive's tale.

That is good sensibility... lol. I seem to recall something about an Exacto Knife being changed to Xacto Knife rather recently. Since anyone can go in and edit the information it cannot be used as a credible source for anything beyond casual reading.

Real, solid sources can be found all over the internet with information that cannot be changed by everybody on a whim or as a joke. As such it is never recommended to use Wikipedia when doing research as a credible resource for the information you are gathering.

Edited by Yung, 17 January 2012 - 06:37 PM.

[Melchoire]

Unseen, on 17 January 2012 - 06:34 PM, said:

Don't reference a referenced article... Ummm why not?

Err sorry I took it to mean don't use wikipedia as a research tool. But yes you shouldn't have wikipedia in your bibliographies.

Yung, on 17 January 2012 - 06:35 PM, said:

That is good sensibility... lol. I seem to recall something about an Exacto Knife being changed to Xacto Knife rather recently. Since anyone can go in and edit the information it cannot be used as a credible source for anything beyond casual reading.

Real, solid sources can be found all over the internet with information that cannot be changed by everybody on a whim or as a joke. As such it is never recommended to use Wikipedia when doing research as a credible resource for the information you are gathering.

I agree, but if you practice a little common sense and follow wikipedia's own references it can be a pretty good research tool for highschool papers and such.

If I was writing a thesis I'd probably visit a library and get more "solid" sources as you mentioned.

[Travis]

Codex should really black out, as well.

[redlion]

Yung, on 17 January 2012 - 05:14 PM, said:

It is supposed to be just for tomorrow, enjoy the day off or just don't use those sites as references? Wikipedia shouldn't be used for references anyways.

There is a difference between using something as a reference, and citing something as a reference. I reference wikipedia constantly, but I would never cite it as such.

[Makinami]

I agree. As much as I'd miss the site tomorrow, I think there should be at least some form of black out.

I plan to stay off the internet as much as possible once it hits midnight where I am. I'm downloading everything I'll need to survive the day

[iargue]

soul__stealer, on 17 January 2012 - 04:44 PM, said:

Rather then "go dark" they would be better off temporarily blacklisting all government IPs.

Wtf would that accomplish?

The purpose isn't to hurt or affect the government at it. Its to show the american people what will happen if the bill passes. If 180 million people try and visit google or youtube tomorrow and get a protest SOPA act instead, it kinda will wake them up and make them realize how retarded this law is.

If not a blackout, at least an alert in the Program Manager. SOPA would fuck this site over, easily.

[Hawk]

Reddit is going to be my biggest issue. What the fuck did I used to do online?!

[punkrockbigmouth]

Google already has it's censor bar up.

[iargue]

punkrockbigmouth, on 17 January 2012 - 09:02 PM, said:

Google already has it's censor bar up.

"Sorry, we are unable to retrieve the document for viewing or you don't have permission to view the document."

I wonder if that's intended, or if they screwed up?

[Scot]

Btw guys, if you want to continue using wikipedia during this protest, just disable javascript in your browser.