SOPA Protests and Blackouts
Discussions center on opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), including website blackouts by sites like Wikipedia and Reddit, boycotts against supporters like GoDaddy, and debates over whether Hacker News should participate in protests.
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Is this still happening now that SOPA has been benched?
How is SOPA dead? Am I missing anything?
Doesn't make any sense to blackout HN. A large majority of HN visitors are already aware of SOPA - no need to raise awareness with this audience.
Should the anti-SOPA website go dark in protest of SOPA?
SOPA = Stop Online Piracy Act [0][0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
GoDaddy explicitly stated that they support the SOPA legislation. Google (and others) took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal denouncing it. It's not the same thing.
Wrong idea. Boycott companies that support SOPA. Look at what happened to Go Daddy.
Why aren't American Internet giants react like it was done with SOPA?
Which headline you'd rather see in NYT tomorrow: > A leading enterpreneur community website goes black to protest SOPA. ``Our jobs would be endangered'', says PG. or > While discussions rage on the merits of SOPA, a leading enterpreneur community remains calm. ``We aren't concerned enough to protest'', says PG.
You should stop doing that because they supported SOPA. Don't sell out.