Internet Blackout 1/18/2012

[DemonMonger]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lMBcIfI688

enjoy the blackout...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwOUsQDfAL8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeEcoi8kEuU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvXo4sGB7zM&feature=related <-- my favorite

[isgandarli]

This is sucky I'm at college, researching and realised wiki is blacked out but you can still get it to work if you disable java script apparently. :D

You have to press ESC before redirect :)

[Seher]

Oh noez, no updates on equestriadaily (http://www.equestriadaily.com/) today.

Oh and don't worry about SOPA. There might be many DMC styled news about this, but... if you want to know what's actually going on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNQh56czKgc#t=1m55s

Google is with you! ;P

[Psynocide]

It's Skynet! Quick someone call Arnie!

Also, anyone know Anon's profile? I need to give them positive karma for their stance on this.

[Seher]

Hahaha priceless!!

https://twitter.com/herpderpedia

[Regnum_Online]

I wish I had known about the ESC thing. I stayed up till 3 in the morning working on a school project, and every time I'd accidentally click a wiki link, I'd want to smash my computer monitor in :ohill: What made it worse was that I could see in information for a second, then the screen would black out with that damn SOPA thing.

All good though, because I got my project done and went to bed, and within a 3 hour time period, 5 inches of snow fell, and now I don't have to go to school today ^^

[_Kharbon_]

Homework without wikipedia is maybe not so easy, but there are worse things...

[standistortion]

Just read in the register (tech journal) that Ireland is about to introduce a similar bill, details here (http://stopsopaireland.com/#2)

[Seher]

Every country is. Smelling the chance since the US are about to do it. They should all go to jail.

[standistortion]

They can make laws 24 hours a day with no days off but enforcing them is another matter :) Tunneling via a VPN to a country where the corporations don't dictate the laws sidesteps all this.

ACTA (http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/26/1746202/acta-signed-by-22-eu-countries) is another major threat to internet freedom:
ACTA vs. SOPA: Five Reasons ACTA is Scarier Threat to Internet Freedom. (http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/286925/20120124/acta-sopa-reasons-scarier-threat-internet-freedom.htm?cid=2)

(Details copied from LFS forum post here (http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=1678680#post1678680))