The Queue: Research like it's 1995

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1-18-2012 @ 1:29PM

Shadowwind said...

Blackouts DO help causes. The Italian version of Wikipedia did a blackout some months ago to protest a bill that was working its way through their governement. Result was a quick backoff from the bill. HOWEVER. While a complete shutdown does draw attention to a cause, doing a partial shutdown the way Wikipedia and Google are also draws attention without risking ticking many of their customers off. Atm, considering the number of people I've talked to who had no idea what these bills were or what they were capable of (and sadly, I'm including some people who were fairly tech-savvy), I support anything that brings these bills to public attention.

P.S. Did you know that until a day or so ago, SOPA/PIPA hadn't gotten any attention in the broadcast news channels? The sole exception was some guy who had his own news show on...CNN, I think? and did a segment on them.

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