Briareos H on 18/1/2012 at 09:17
A full day without facebook and google would probably generate enough productivity to save the european economy
Queue on 18/1/2012 at 14:03
9:00am EST: Wikipedia is working completely fine for me (in fact, I just went Larry Fine's wiki entry), and there's a really weak black "censored" bar across Google's logo on their homepage.
Quite the protest, huh?
... maybe they are Occupying the Internet.
henke on 18/1/2012 at 14:26
Are you looking at the (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) English Wikipedia Queue? As far as I can tell that's the only one that's blacked out.
Also, as long as I'm posting informative helpfull stuff: SOPA is the Swedish word for "trash"!
The Alchemist on 18/1/2012 at 14:35
4chans black bars are just annoying. :| Ctrl+A kthx.
However, no Reddit is painful. Oh and the Wiki thing is just a popup. If you stop the loading before it pops up or use noscript you can access the articles...
Queue on 18/1/2012 at 14:47
henke:
Yeah, I'm looking at the English page. I'm not even getting the pop-up that The Alchemist mentioned, and I'm running scripts, though on an old version of Opera(9.0) for Mac.
Maybe, like Microsoft, the blackout doesn't run on older versions?
Briareos H on 18/1/2012 at 14:52
You won't see it if you disable JS.
heywood on 18/1/2012 at 15:23
This "protest" is looking pretty lame and seems to be limited by IP filtering.
Accessing English Wikipedia from Australia, I started getting anti-SOPA banners warning about the blackout about 12 hours before it was supposed to take effect. Now in Singapore, I can't tell anything has happened unless I access the English home page Henke linked. Most entries to Wikipedia are through Google, and all those seem to work fine with not even a banner ad about SOPA. So... English Wikipedia is definitely not down here, and doesn't appear to be affected at all. Furthermore, (
www.google.com) seems to be completely unaffected as well.
henke on 18/1/2012 at 15:30
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EJZ0nlhl0W8?version=3&hl=sv_SE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed>
ZylonBane on 18/1/2012 at 18:12
The annoying irony here is that everyone inspired by these blackouts to educate themselves on SOPA will find that many of the best articles about it are on sites that are currently blacked out.
*facepalm*
Renault on 18/1/2012 at 18:25
There's always...tomorrow?
