Senators drop support of piracy bill after protests

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Originally Posted by ElieM

Wiki obviously.

Except not really. Like I said, their mobile pages were working just fine, which made me wonder why they bothered. (Even my middle schooler talked at supper about how he needed to look something up while at school so he pulled up the mobile version of The Wiki on his laptop.)

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

Well, not exactly. As the article states, Google "went dark" by making their google face literally dark. It just didn't go dark in the sense of shutting down. Semantics? Absolutely. And not an exaggeration if you want to split hairs.

I'll admit it. I used Google a number of time yesterday and never even noticed this.

What this should show people is if you browbeat your elected officials, they WILL listen. Well, they'll listen if you can get several hundred people to browbeat them along with you.

I don't think it shows that at all -- who was browbeating anybody?

My guess is that petitions and lobbyists for The Wiki et al did far more to convince some politicians to rethink their support of SOPA (in its present form) than did any "going dark."

Originally Posted by DrPhil

The fact that sites like Google, facebook, and twitttter either did no blackout or a halfassed blackout means something.

Exactly.

Originally Posted by AGDee

MC: It was my understanding that the point of the blackout was to demonstrate what the Internet would look like under SOPA. Key sites that would probably be shut down completely under SOPA obviously are against SOPA and used this as a way to show the effects. In reality, far more sites would be rendered useless under SOPA than those participating.

Yeah, I get that was their point. That was not the message I received, though. The message I received was



Claims like "this is what the web would be like if SOPA passes" strike me as so hyperbolic as to be counterproductive.