Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Kill SOPA - STOP CENSHORSHIP

Sites around the world are protesting against the US SOPA and PIPA initiatives trying to censor the Internet...censorship is not cool at all, Internet if build by all and for all. Piracy exists and sometimes is awful to see  how some people make money out of the creativity of others, but let's face it, without Internet freedom and some level of piracy the Internet won't be what it is right now...

Here's a list of sites protesting today:

http://www.google.com has blacked out their logo in protest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page  entire site is blacked out
http://www.wired.com/  blacked out
http://thedailywtf.com/   "whited" out (some lulz here)
http://boards.4chan.org/co/   all text on the page is blacked out
http://www.fark.com/   "whited" out (also funny)
http://wordpress.com/   images of blog themes are blacked out
http://techcrunch.com/   logo blacked out
http://boingboing.net/   blacked out
http://news.ycombinator.com/  blacked out logo
http://arstechnica.com/  changed to black theme
http://xkcd.com/  blacked-out strip
http://gnu.org/ blacked out
http://imgur.com/ blacked out
http://newyork.craigslist.org/ blacked out
http://theoatmeal.com/ animation educating people

Update:
You should check this article studying the different ways that the listed websites changed their sites to support the SOPA protest. It's a really cool overview of the techniques used and which ones are actually correct in terms of web usage and HTTP standard responses. Check it out 

Update:
I found this article explaining a bit more in detail the different legislation acts and how it can go further and affect us, users and domain registrars. Make sure to check it out !

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