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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.
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The need to split hairs is exactly why it is an exaggeration.
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Originally Posted by DubaiSis
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. The other thing this should show people is that you should know what your electeds are supporting and what they're not, and keep holding their feet to the fire.
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If this is an important topic to people. I do not consider it of particular importance. Yet we need people to fight for different causes, even if there is no consensus regarding the importance.
The fact that sites like Google, facebook, and twitttter either did no blackout or a halfassed blackout means something.