Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Wikipedia Google protest US antipiracy proposals Stupid High School Kids Blackout Protest Has Plenty Of Company Lamar Smith & MPAA Brush Off As Just A Publicity Stunt joins blackout against piracy bill Editors Question Site's editors question site's planned Major Media to the Stop Online Piracy Act WSVN DirecTV talking for first time since Reddit's SOPA Admirable but and Facebook Must Follow Emails After Work Hours Translates Overtime Pay in Brazil Editorial An online prevent a dark day Calls Planned Web Site Blackouts “Stunts That Punish Their Users”

The Surprises of a Wikipedia Blackout In the hours before the blackout hit, coders and bloggers alike scrambled and many succeeded in finding ways around the anti-censorship protests on sites like Wikipedia, Reddit and Wired. Now that everyone's had the chance to tinker with the site, more details are emerging about the real effects of the blackout. Chief among them, because Wikipedia editors can't access the pages they need to ... Wikipedia Blackout Lets In Some Light Despite Wikipedia's 24-hour blackout, it is still possible to read Wikipedia's content in a number of ways. Internet blackout against law fails to enlist big sites A blackout scheduled for Wednesday to protest against proposed legislation on online piracy has failed to get the support of the biggest Internet players. Despite calls for the participation of sites such as Facebook, Twitter and other big names, the biggest participants are Wikipedia and the social-news website Reddit. SOPA/PIPA blackout: 'The Day the LOLcats Died' SOPA blackout day is a dark day — literally. With a black bar across Google's logo and other sites turning their robust user-driven sites into a single black page. One team, though, avoided donning black, and chose instead to sing out its angst with this viral video "The Day the LolCats Died." Read full article >> Bits Blog: Wikipedia Blackout Lets In Some Light Despite Wikipedia's 24-hour blackout, it is still possible to read Wikipedia's content in a number of ways. SOPA blackout: Wikipedia still accessible -- with a little effort Wikipedia's pages can still be reached during the Internet blackout protest of the SOPA and PIPA online piracy bills. The Case For and Against the Wikipedia Blackout Other big Internet players haven't rallied behind Jimmy Wales, after the Wikipedia founder confirmed that the site would go dark this Wednesday to protest SOPA. Wikipedia has joined Reddit for a 24 hour blackout tomorrow. But other anti-Sopa sites aren't sure this is the best way to protest the anti-piracy bill. When asked if Twitter would blackout as well, CEO Dick Costolo called the whole ... SOPA blackout spreads across the Internet The blackout movement to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act that began with reddit and Wikipedia has spread to many major sites across the Internet, many of which are important examples of Web entities that could be shut down without due process by SOPA-like legislation. Below are some of our favorites. Read the comments on this post How to access Wikipedia during the SOPA blackout Those wondering how to get around the Wikipedia SOPA blackout can breathe a little easier: the crowd-sourced encyclopedia is still available through the mobile versions, disabling Javascript or translating another language's version of it. Savvy web surfers finding ways to circumvent Wikipedia blackout Wikipedia has imposed a 24-hour blackout on its English language website, a move that has impacted millions of global users, but some savvy web surfers are already finding ways around the problem.
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http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/137563313.html
http://gawker.com/5877192/stupid-high-school-kids-and-teachers-freak-out-over-wikipedia-blackout
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/orlandosentinel/news/~3/E7_tq-KtdCE/os-sopa-google-wikipedia-blackout-20120118,0,3275782.story
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/1/18/wikipedia-editors-question-sites-blackout?s_cid=rss:wikipedia-editors-question-sites-blackout
http://www.mobiledia.com/news/124289.html
http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/websites-336062-court-sites.html
http://pixelhat.net/

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