Personal blackout

[eliyes]

As a protest against SOPA and PIPA, this account with be going silent from 08:00 - 20:00 18 January 2012.

Additionally, no websites will be accessed by yours truly during that time.

I encourage people to do the same -- the drop in internet activity across the Web will speak volumes.

Comments

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

If some of the news dribblets coming through the aether are correct, it looks like it all worked. A few of the supporters of the bill have backed out.

The massive outpouring of utter morons not understanding the whole thing, however...

https://twitter.com/herpderpedia

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I am hopeful but I won't believe it until the bill is actually and officially shot down.

Ugh, selfish short-sighted lazy morons. There was a piece in the paper this morning about WIkipedia's blackout. I shan't flatter it with the undeserved title of "article", because Lois Lane would spit, yes, spit on the text in question. It didn't even come out as obviously for or against the blackout, but it was snidely whinily against in a "but what's the point of this inconvenient blackout when you can fiddle with your browser to get to wikipedia after all" and I'm like "BITCH, THE BLACKOUT WAS OVER BY THE TIME THIS WENT TO PRINT, AND FURTHERMORE, YOU MIGHT HAVE WANTED TO MENTION WHY IT WAS HAPPENING IN THE FIRST PLACE OR WHAT THE REACTION WAS SINCE THERE WAS NEWS ABOUT THAT BEFORE I EVEN LEFT FOR WORK LAST NIGHT ugh ugh UGH WHINY LAZY SELFISH SHORTSIGHTED --" (I will stop there to spare you my cussin'). The text took up less space than the picture of Wikipedia's main page during the blackout that it accompanied. There was a better actual article about the whole thing the day before.

*gives twitter the finger*

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

I am hopeful but I won't believe it until the bill is actually and officially shot down.

Ditto.

re: the other thing--

Heaven forbid that people's lives are-- gasp! --inconvenienced for a few hours because others are trying to preserve their rights.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Heaven forbid that people's lives are-- gasp! --inconvenienced for a few hours because others are trying to preserve their rights.

These words express my feelings, thank you.