[haiku] Re: SOPA Website blackout ?
- From: Brian Hague <alphaseinor@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:41:39 -0600
Do the PIPA blackout, SOPA has been tabled as of yesterday in the USA.
+2 for me
Brian Hague
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Alexander von Gluck
<kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 17.01.2012 09:17, Alexander von Gluck wrote:
>>
>> On 17.01.2012 08:07, François Revol wrote:
>>>
>>> In case you have been living on another planet last week, you might have
>>> missed news that some big sites like
>>> Wikipedia will be blacked out on wednesday to protest an upcoming bill
>>> nicknamed SOPA (meaning, ironically, Stop
>>> Online Piracy Act), which is one but many of current attempts at
>>> restricting online freedom.
>>>
>>> Those are just the latest iteration of longstanding threats which also
>>> hurt free software like us. Starting with DMCA
>>> and its legal provisions for DRM making it very hard to legally ship with
>>> a way to decode a DVD for ex. in the US.
>>>
>>> I propose we follow the blackout on our website.
>>>
>>> more info:
>>>
>>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout
>>>
>>> http://www.BlackoutSOPA.org/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/how-pipa-and-sopa-violate-white-house-principles-supporting-free-speech
>>
>>
>> +1
>>
>> I'm for doing the SOPA (or more importantly the PIPA) blackout.
>>
>> The only effected web service I think should be the main website however.
>> (exclude dev.haiku-os.org,
>> cgit.haiku-os.org, etc)
>
>
> One other tidbit... this seems like an easy way to do it that will
> automatically enable and disable on Wednesday:
>
> "
> <script>
> var a=new
> Date;if(18==a.getDate()&&0==a.getMonth()&&2012==a.getFullYear())window.location="http://sopastrike.com/strike";;
> </script>
> "
>
> Hopefully that html made it through, if not: http://pastebin.com/WX6q27nn
>
> -- Alex
>
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