Wikipedia Blackout

[stretch]

more information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more

thoughts? :wakeup

[lefty]

Meh ...

[Drachen]

I have defeated the wikipedia blackout with the power of M!

[Drachen]

Oh and I already wrote both senators and my congressman, so there's that.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Wikipedia is not blacked out. Wikipedia.com may be but Wikipedia is not blacked out.

[Monostradamus]

I agree that the bills shouldn't be passed, but it is kinda funny that the guy who plasters his face on huge ads begging people to give him money is the guy demanding that the internet be free.

[stretch]

Wikipedia is not blacked out. Wikipedia.com may be but Wikipedia is not blacked out.

:rolleyes

[Agloco]

Where will I go for all of my research references?

[Viva Las Espuelas]

:rolleyes

Yes?

[pawe]

PIPA and SOPA can suck my dick!

[stretch]

are you a faggot?

Yes

i thought so

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

PIPA and SOPA can suck my dick!

If Congress ever finds a way to make legislation sexually pleasure voters it will be the end of democratic protests as we know it. Then comes the Wall Street Deregulation/Stuff Your Girlfriend Isn't Into Act.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Blackout lol
What an idiot. Little stretchy pants got mad :lol

[Heath Ledger]

Works just fine for me today on my iphone.

[BlackSwordsMan]

the fuck xvideos trying to stop sopa too? I'm trying to look at an asian schoolgirl lick a male's asshole while jerking him off why you trying to show me SOPA shit

[stretch]

Blackout lol
What an idiot. Little stretchy pants got mad :lol

if i wanted to be a retarded technicality faggot like you, I would have pointed you to the fact that this specific sentence is said on the wikipedia blackout screen

"For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia."

if you have a problem with specific terminology, why dont you cry about it to them

stupid faggot be@ner

[stretch]

Works just fine for me today on my iphone.

Yeah, the website says its still fully available, just on PCs there is a "blackout" message that comes up, but they also notify you that there is a way around it.

[Sense]

Yeah, the website says its still fully available, just on PCs there is a "blackout" message that comes up, but they also notify you that there is a way around it.

Who notifies you there's a way around it? Have you figured it out? Something tells me you haven't.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

"Wikipedia Blackout" l:loll

Wikipedia created this thread and title l:rollinl

[stretch]

Who notifies you there's a way around it? Have you figured it out? Something tells me you haven't.

wikipedia does

also you can just pull up whatever you are searching for, and before the message screen pops up, you hit the stop button on your browser

[stretch]

"Wikipedia Blackout" l:loll

Wikipedia created this thread and title l:rollinl

:rollin viva thinking hes pulling off a successful troll job when in reality hes just being his usual dumbass self :rollin

:rollin:rollin:rollin:rollin:rollin:rollin:rollin: rollin:rollin:rollin:rollin

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Mavs lol
/thread

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Washed up has been for avatar l:rollinl

[Viva Las Espuelas]

But thanks for the "blackout" warning :wakeup

[Viva Las Espuelas]

You can now continue with your normally scheduled, tired, bigoted programming, stretchy poo ;)

[stretch]

wetback

:rollin

[stretch]

apparently craigslist is in on this stuff too

http://www.craigslist.org/about/SOPA

[stretch]

google too

https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

[mavs>spurs]

wetback

:rollin

:lmao :lmao :lmao fuckin be@ners man

[Muser]

Disable javascript to get round it.

[Drachen]

Disable javascript to get round it.

Even easier m.wikipedia.com

[Viva Las Espuelas]

No. Its a blackout!!!!!

[DMC]

the fuck xvideos trying to stop sopa too? I'm trying to look at an asian schoolgirl lick a male's asshole while jerking him off why you trying to show me SOPA shit
Don't a drop a the SOPA in the showa...

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

I still don't understand what Viva Los Be@ners was trying to be funny with in this thread

[Wild Cobra]

I have defeated the wikipedia blackout with the power of M!
All I did was hit the "stop" button when the page loaded to keep it from redirecting.

[z0sa]

I still don't understand what Viva Los Be@ners was trying to be funny with in this thread

hey a bean3r comment, you're funny

[Wild Cobra]

eh like congress give a fuck about wikipedia

they and the prez already shot down sopa after google facebook etc flashed they scratch yo
I lost a great deal of respect for Wiki with their idiotic shutdown.

[Useruser666]

I lost a great deal of respect for Wiki with their idiotic shutdown.

I do not understand why in the world you think what they did was idiotic. Please explain? I think that it was the perfect way to show people who are unaware of the issues of these bills and the effect they might have on the internet. I may be wrong, but I assume that you use wikis a lot and would value them as a source of info. The people who create these wikis feel that they face may face unjust prosecution/persecution if these bills were passed. Maybe you don’t believe so, but at least it gets the issue out for discussion for the general public.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

If they actually shutdown or blacked out, I would've respected what they did. This was just a charade.
Blackout lol

[Useruser666]

If they actually shutdown or blacked out, I would've respected what they did. This was just a charade.
Blackout lol

Goal = To raise awareness.

You = Talking about it.

Goal = Achieved.

[Spurminator]

Yup.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Yeah. "Goal was achieved". I'm just "talking about it" to make people "aware" that there was no blackout. Is that too hard to comprehend?

[stretch]

Goal = To raise awareness.

You = Talking about it.

Goal = Achieved.

:rollin

viva just got a 24 inch gorilla dildo shoved up his ass

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/19/tech/sopa-blackouts/index.html

I'd say wikipedia accomplished something

[stretch]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/19/tech/sopa-blackouts/index.html

I'd say wikipedia accomplished something

:lobt2:

[Greg Oden]

Mavs lol
/thread

Holy shit what a badass burn.

[stretch]

sup odester

[Greg Oden]

hello

[Bill_Brasky]

I lost a great deal of respect for Wiki with their idiotic shutdown.

Shut the fuck up, Charles.

[DeadlyDynasty]

Goal = To raise awareness.

You = Talking about it.

Goal = Achieved.

/thread.

[Useruser666]

Yeah. "Goal was achieved". I'm just "talking about it" to make people "aware" that there was no blackout. Is that too hard to comprehend?

I will grant you that Wikipedia did not totally take their page down. But I don't think that was necessary. If you went to the English language page and didn't circumvent the "blackout" message, it fits the definition of a blackout in many ways. In the military sense of hiding lights from the enemy, as in the lights are still on (web page still up), but they can’t be seen. Also, definition #6 is pretty dead on. Other than that I feel it’s just semantics.

blackout [ˈblækaʊt]
n
1. (Military) the extinguishing or hiding of all artificial light, esp in a city visible to an enemy attack from the air
6. (Communication Arts / Broadcasting) the suspension of radio or television broadcasting, as by a strike or for political reasons
vb black out (adverb)
1. (tr) to obliterate or extinguish (lights)
2. (Military) (tr) to create a blackout in (a city etc.)
4. (Communication Arts / Broadcasting) (tr, adverb) to stop (news, a television programme) from being released or broadcast

As of what will happen now, I think this article touches on that:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/19/sopa_is_gone_are_you_happy_now/



Open ... and Shut In response to internet technology companies leading a rousing protest against SOPA and PIPA, these bills appear to be doomed to ignominious defeat. Even the co-sponsors of these anti-piracy bills are deserting their legislation, leaving the tech world to cheer its success.

But what kind of success did we achieve?

As written, the SOPA and PIPA were bad bills. They deserved criticism and lots of second thoughts. Through protests led by Wikipedia, Google, and others, the anti-SOPA/PIPA crowd managed to get the ear of Congress and, to a lesser degree, the general public, and shout down bad legislation.

And that's the problem, actually. The shouting.

Former Mozilla CEO John Lilly captured this best, arguing, "What’s extremely discouraging to me right now is that I don’t really see how we [the tech world and the US Congress] can have a nuanced, technically-informed, respectful discussion/debate/conversation/working relationship."

[Axe Murderer]

more information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more

thoughts? :wakeup

i like to pick my butthole

[stretch]

i like to pick my butthole

kill that faggot phillip if you ever see him, pls. kthx

[TDMVPDPOY]

but who uses wikipedia man? that shit most unis/colleges dont accept information and quoting from that site...