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Last edited Tue Jan 17, 2012, 01:59 PM - Edit history (6)
Here's the complete list of sites that I know of who have committed to going dark on Wednesday to protest SOPA. Do you know of any more? Are any on this list erroneous?
Reddit
Wikipedia
AOL
eBay
Etsy
Foursquare
IAC
LinkedIn
Mozilla
OpenDNS
PayPal
Twitter
Yahoo!
Zynga
Boing Boing
Raspberry Pi
Cheezburger Network
Tucows
Red 5 Studios
On edit: Also, if you have a WordPress site, here's a free plugin that will allow your site to go dark too on Wednesday: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/go-dark
ETA: SOPA may have been "shelved" but Reid says he's still moving forward with PIPA. See: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120116/02442717414/harry-reid-says-hes-concerned-pipa-will-break-internet-we-must-move-forward-with-it-because-jobs.shtml
[div style="background-color:yellow; color:red;padding:10px;font-size:1.1em;"]Update 1/17: Here's a much more comprehensive list that I found. http://nlb-creations.com/2012/01/13/websites-confirmed-for-the-jan-18-blackout-protesting-sopa
deacon
(5,967 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)Does that mean that people who have email accounts on google or yahoo won't be able to access their mail?
salvorhardin
(9,995 posts)Just the search engine front end, I think. Similarly, PayPal's website might go dark, but it would still continue processing and receiving payments on the backend.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)Loosing search capacity is bad enough for me. Half my job is fact-checking. I'll have to find a different search engine for the day, or, I dunno: go play hookey.
DontTreadOnMe
(2,442 posts)they don't have enough votes, so they are holding up the bill.
Doesn't fare well that it will ever come back up for s vote, but don't count it out yet, there is ANOTHER "IP Protection" Bill in the works.
Controversial online piracy bill shelved until 'consensus' is found
By Brendan Sasso - 01/14/12 09:41 AM ET
House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said early Saturday morning that Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) promised him the House will not vote on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) unless there is consensus on the bill.
"While I remain concerned about Senate action on the Protect IP Act, I am confident that flawed legislation will not be taken up by this House," Issa said in a statement. "Majority Leader Cantor has assured me that we will continue to work to address outstanding concerns and work to build consensus prior to any anti-piracy legislation coming before the House for a vote."
The announcement comes just hours after Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), SOPA's sponsor, made a major concession to the bill's critics by agreeing to drop a controversial provision that would have required Internet service providers to block infringing websites.
SOPA is designed to go after foreign websites that offer illegal copies of music, movies and TV shows with impunity. Even without the provision allowing sites to be blocked, the bill would empower the Justice Department and copyright holders to demand that search engines delete links to sites dedicated to copyright infringement. Ad networks and payment processors would be prohibited from doing business with the sites.
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/204167-sopa-shelved-until-consensus-is-found
salvorhardin
(9,995 posts)PIPA is the Senate bill and Reid says he's moving forward with it.
In a short appearance on Meet the Press on Sunday, Senate leader Harry Reid continued to insist that the Senate intended to move forward with PIPA, despite the widespread concerns, despite the White House's statement against the bill, and despite multiple Senators -- including bill co-sponsors -- asking him to hold off putting the bill to a vote.
What's stunning is how misleading Senator Reid is being here. First, he claims that the bill is about "jobs," despite a total lack of evidence that that's true. In fact, as has been noted plenty of times here, the part of the economy that is creating jobs -- the startup/tech sector -- is the one who gets burdened by this bill. David Gregory then responds by pointing out that people keep pointing out to him online that this bill isn't really about jobs, and will harm the internet. Reid then tries to pretend that this is a new revelation. He notes that it was "reported out of the committee unanimously" back in May. That's true, but that was back before most people understood the bill, or the internet had spoken out. Even then, many of us were quite clear in speaking out about why this bill was a problem. But Harry Reid pretends that it's "just in the last few weeks" that anyone has raised concerns." That's flat out ridiculous.
Next he claims that he's working with Senator Feinstein on this, since she's "in the middle" of the issue, representing both Northern and Southern California, where the issue is loudest. This would be the same Senator Feinstein who is so tone deaf to what's happening in her own state, that just weeks ago she insisted that she didn't know the tech industry was upset about the bill.
More: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120116/02442717414/harry-reid-says-hes-concerned-pipa-will-break-internet-we-must-move-forward-with-it-because-jobs.shtml
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)Really? That's millions in losses.
TheWraith
(24,331 posts)Assuming that they're also shutting down Google AdSense and so forth.
Google makes in excess of $100 million per day in revenue total, although not everything would be shutting down.
Drale
(7,932 posts)What the hell am I going to do during class?
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Remember Me
(1,532 posts)tho I'm not sure how I'll live w/o google. Oh well, I'll adjust.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)And all sorts of things.
I guess I'll have to explain.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)I wonder is it just going to be a 404 day?
I twill be better if there's a page explaining what's going on and call your congress critter and all
aquart
(69,014 posts)salvorhardin
(9,995 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)and do something like pleasure writing.
tsuki
(11,994 posts)Have fun.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Craigslist has a statement on their site now. This is all good.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Wikipedia has decided to black out the English version of the online encyclopedia for 24 hours on Wednesday to protest against controversial legislation in the U.S., following a cue given by some other Internet sites including social news site Reddit which will black out its site for 12 hours on the same day.
Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo however said in a message on Twitter that "Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish". He later clarified that he was talking about Twitter and not about Wikipedia's decision.
Wikimedia Foundation said on Monday that the Wikipedia community had chosen to black out its English version to protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate.
"If passed, this legislation will harm the free and open Internet and bring about new tools for censorship of international websites inside the United States," Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, said in a statement on its website.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/248265/wikipedia_to_go_dark_in_sopa_protest_twitter_declines.html
rainbow4321
(9,974 posts)Nothing about them joining the blackout...has anyone read otherwise ?
salvorhardin
(9,995 posts)Wikipedia? Yes, they are joining the blackout. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout
It's their English language site only, but that's their largest, most heavily trafficked site, and will have the most effect in the United States.
rainbow4321
(9,974 posts)But nothing I have read has said that FB will be joining the blackout
salvorhardin
(9,995 posts)That's one of the reasons I put up this list -- to try to determine exactly which sites have committed.
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)ellisonz
(27,711 posts)HillWilliam
(3,310 posts)just now. Even though my site is a tiny backwater, every participant counts.
HillWilliam
(3,310 posts)Edit for dup: I'm x-posting everywhere I can reach.
Thanks for the links.
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)meow2u3
(24,774 posts)One problem: I use Gmail for work and won't be able to get important messages. It's going to be difficult to get my job done.