[aklug] Re: It's going down...

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On 01/17/2012 05:53 PM, Christopher Howard wrote:
> Probably some of you have noticed this already:
>
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout
>
> At 05:00 UTC tomorrow (Jan 18), The entire Wikipedia Web site (or
> rather, the entire English portion) will shut down completely in a
> voluntary 24 hour blackout, in protest to SOPA.
>
> That should get some attention.
>

Err, correction: I was quite under the impression that they were
planning to "shut down completely". Turns out that they just inserted
some JavaScript onto their pages which makes them appear to have shut
down. (?) All you have to do to get access is to turn off JavaScript
to get full access again. (Which is about a two second job if you have
the NoScript extension.)

Kind of an ineffective way to do a "blackout", in my humble opinion.
Oh well... at least it should draw some attention to the SOPA/PIPA
bills, even if only for a few minutes.

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Received on Wed Jan 18 07:25:45 2012