Timeline for Any chance of Stack Exchange blacking out Jan 18, along with Reddit and Wikipedia in opposition of SOPA/PIPA?
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| Jan 18, 2012 at 21:14 | comment | added | jscs | There was a NY Times article about it (motivated by the blackout) today; unfortunately it was of the "he said"/"she said" variety, without much actual research. Seemed like they'd just heard about the blackout and didn't have a lot of time to put together an article. | |
| Jan 18, 2012 at 20:21 | history | edited | Jeff Atwood | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 18, 2012 at 19:46 | comment | added | anon | @Mobinga I'm Canadian, so I can't see it. I've seen screenshots though. | |
| Jan 18, 2012 at 12:53 | comment | added | Mob | @AgentConundrum You might want to check the google homepage. | |
| Jan 17, 2012 at 19:02 | comment | added | Jon Ericson | Readers of the Washington Post (admittedly geeks by a different name) would know that both bills (but especially SOPA) are in trouble and will likely need to be watered down if they are to pass. | |
| Jan 17, 2012 at 17:34 | comment | added | Ian Ringrose | Is games.se used by people "outside of our technical ghettos"? | |
| Jan 16, 2012 at 22:58 | history | edited | John | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 13, 2012 at 0:57 | comment | added | anon | ... then public opinion will quickly shift against Google for having caused it. | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 0:55 | comment | added | anon | There's the argument that Google and Facebook need to be incentivized to actually black out. Also, I haven't seen anything out of Google to suggest they're actually seriously considering a black out; I've only seen third party speculation. A full blackout also seems unlikely for Google, and a lot of people are expecting that the most they'll do is a banner or an interstitial. The argument being that if even one person has a major issue as a result of a full blackout (one example I've seen is someone getting bitten by a venomous snake that they don't correctly identify because Google was down) | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 0:32 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | @agent Google was 91% of all incoming traffic to Stack Overflow from Jan-Dec 2011. And 73% of all incoming traffic to Stack Exchange in the same period. So if Google blacks out, we are de facto blacked out as well. | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 0:26 | comment | added | anon | Point taken though. "[My] idea is bad and [I] should feel bad." (I mean that as a joke, btw.) After reading the reddit post, then the HN discussion, I just thought I'd float the idea here as well given the GoDaddy response. As a Canadian, my hands are pretty tied as far as what I can do about the bills (I can't donate to your politicians, for example, and they wouldn't ever take my calls since I can't vote for them), but they're still disturbing to an international audience. | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 0:23 | comment | added | anon | Beyond that, though I stupidly said "stack overflow" in the post, I was thinking of "stack exchange" when I made it. While the flagship site is clearly a "technical ghetto", that label is less accurate on other SX sites like cooking.SX, english.SX, or even photo.SX, and blacking them out might be more noticeable to the unwashed masses of the non-technical public. Also, I think you're making a bad assumption by assuming everyone who comes to SO knows about these bills. I'm sure there are plenty of "programming-as-a-9-to-5-job" programmers who occasionally come here who might not be aware. | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 0:19 | comment | added | anon | Again, I made this post after reading an argument on HN that taking down that site (one much smaller than, though equally technically oriented to, this one) as an act of solidarity with reddit would be of benefit if only as an amplifier to attract attention. It's "reddit blacks out in protest of SOPA/PIPA" vs. "several large websites blackout in protest". | |
| Jan 12, 2012 at 9:46 | comment | added | waffles | the root issue has never really been SOPA or the rest of the draconian industry backed laws, it is the huge amount of cash that is injected into the system by the lobbyists, fixing congress is the first problem that should be solved lessig.tumblr.com/post/13119510676/… | |
| Jan 12, 2012 at 9:28 | history | edited | Jeff Atwood | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 12, 2012 at 7:30 | comment | added | balpha StaffMod | edition.cnn.com/2012/01/06/tech/web/sopa-web-piracy-act | |
| Jan 12, 2012 at 7:19 | history | answered | Jeff Atwood | CC BY-SA 3.0 |