Originally Posted by
tyler84
It's a protest of the internet industry (or at least many websites) against two proposed bills called SOPA and PIPA. The entertainment industrie wants to gain the right to cencor the web and shut down every website having a britney spears song playing in the background of a video posted on it.
For more information you should read the information page Google provides. Wikipedia is completely shut down today and does provide information on it to. (same goes for reddit and craigslist)
Or any of the conservative/right wing sites it can. I've already caught them censoring certain info that is unflattering to lefwingnut rhetoric. As in ... you back to find an article or link and it's "magically" vanished.
Originally Posted by
cadet
Something about the Congress Censoring the web...
If that's about certain cites people visit in the late nights, i think that's the parents job to block those.
But, if this goes farther then that, one small step toward communism, one giant leap for Gov't. We don't know how to take care of ourselves, let Uncle Sam tell you how.
ah, and here's the link if you need some ref.
https://www.google.com/
Where have YOU been? Our curent President embodies that ideal.
Originally Posted by
Thunderknuckles
Dude, where have you been!?
We've got major legislation going through congress right now that will have an enormous impact on the Internet and today is the day many Internet heavyweights have chosen to protest this legislation.
Run a Google search on SOPA and PIPA for more information.
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