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I read it as Wikipedia blacked up!



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Where will I get my factually incorrect information now?

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Chris Gould says...
Where will I get my factually incorrect information now?www.dvdreviewer.co.uk/forums ?



Jimbo : oÞ

"There's that word again... is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull in the future?"

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Chris Gould says...
Where will I get my factually incorrect information now?
By pressing stop / hitting Esc before the black screen appears

Or disabling Javascript.

Or using Google cache.

Still, the sentiment is worthwhile.

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Flickr have black out photo's as well.

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Mikeonfreeserve says...
How will hack journalists cope?? It would almost be worth buying newspapers tomorrow to find out.

On a sort of related note, I swear in the sports section of The Times today they constantly used Britain instead of Murray, I had to re-read the article a few times to be sure there wasn't some guy with that as his surname they were referring too instead.


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I am missing something here.

Why is it blacked out, did they not pay their bill ?

Yup, they're after 50p for their electricity meter

Apparently if some bill or other goes through in america the internet will basically completely close down instantly (that's their version anywho).

They're protesting against the Stop Online Piracy Act, which will apparently give the American Attorney General powers against websites that complainants (the Studios) feel are infringing their Intellectual Property rights.  If the Attorney General reckons a site is infringing, he can take direct action against the site if it is under US jurisdiction (or I suspect the jurisdiction of any "friendly power").  If not, he can order US ISPs to directly block the site and search engines to ignore it.  Ad providers and financial services like Paypal also have to withdraw their services from the site.

You may say fair enough, but SOPA is so poorly and broadly written (like almost all legislation) that it is absolutely open to abuse.  Sites like Wikileaks will be history under SOPA, and even sites like this could find themselves required to jump through hoops to include images and screenshots for movies that they're providing free advertising for.

As resistant to attack as the internet is supposed to be, so much of the infrastructure is based in the US that if the Americans choose to remould it in their image they will be able to sanitise it to the point there won't be any room for ordinary netizens.

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