This is one blackout I'm not going to complain about. I'll be mining all day long if I'm needed.
The Internet Blackout
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Microsoft supports SOPA. so no.ChromaticWolfen said:
OT: Google (including YouTube), reddit, cheezburger, a whole load of others.
All of 4Chan's text has been censored. 
That's a good way to raise awareness without the cost of profit.
That's a good way to raise awareness without the cost of profit.
Far over, the misty mountains cold.LordXel said:Indeed! Come around everyone, lets sing songs from The Hobbit so I can feel like Gandalf! Then afterwards we chase an internet dragon in the dark.FalloutJack said:
To Dungeons deep, and caverns old.
Not really, but you should look at Google's homepage. It's pretty interesting (though I thought they were actually going all out, not just a nifty Jpeg.)
You act like the internet won't function today. Most companies are bluffing (as Google seems to be shaping up to prove), and the rest leave plenty of functioning internet without them. It's just another day, but without a couple of things you might have to remember to use alternatives for, not some massive outage.
RPGMaker.net went down too.
I just registered yesterday and then today, POOF! They are blacking out.
Not that I mind, really. I have a class today, so I can't really do much anyway.
I just registered yesterday and then today, POOF! They are blacking out.
Not that I mind, really. I have a class today, so I can't really do much anyway.
Hi I don't really know what happened, so I came to the escapist to find out. Really people are doing this on purpose why? I don't think congress cares all my web comics are taking a day off. If fact this may be a win for them as it makes you buy a real newspaper for the funnies.
We've thought quite a bit about it, but unfortunately can't afford to take our site offline on our best traffic day. We need the money the site would lose in traffic to pay people who make content for us.seraphy said:
We did have a more drastic blackout skin ready to go, but are going to instead link people who are interested to EFF's blacklist site [http://blacklist.eff.org/] up top in the logo and try to talk about it in our news stream. Sorry we can't afford to be more dramatic about our activism, we'd certainly like to be.
The Escapist seems to have just joined it.
It's a good think it's not completely gone though, I have college work to do and I need to procrastinate here.
Dear Coke Talk has also joined the strike. A censored internet would be so boring.
It's a good think it's not completely gone though, I have college work to do and I need to procrastinate here.
Dear Coke Talk has also joined the strike. A censored internet would be so boring.
It's understandable that the site can't afford to lose the ad revenue from it's busiest day of the week, but will The Escapist be taking other steps to protest such as boycotting E3?Kross said:We've thought quite a bit about it, but unfortunately can't afford to take our site offline on our best traffic day. We need the money the site would lose in traffic to pay people who make content for us.
We did have a more drastic blackout skin ready to go, but are going to instead link people who are interested to EFF's blacklist site [http://blacklist.eff.org/] up top in the logo and try to talk about it in our news stream. Sorry we can't afford to be more dramatic about our activism, we'd certainly like to be.
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I think the escapist is good to not go down completely. There is raising awareness by talking and shooting yourself in the foot. This is something the escapist has done better then the other sites by actually having messages in their content. On other sites the first I heard they care about SOPA is when they blacked themselves out. OK, don't warn anyone whats going on just kill your site one day with the message "see you'll miss me." It feels vaguely like over dramatic blackmail, like the beginning of blazing saddles. Maybe if the down sites put up a splash that was a fake blackout you could click through so the sites not really down you just panic for a moment I would be happier.Kross said:We've thought quite a bit about it, but unfortunately can't afford to take our site offline on our best traffic day. We need the money the site would lose in traffic to pay people who make content for us.seraphy said:
We did have a more drastic blackout skin ready to go, but are going to instead link people who are interested to EFF's blacklist site [http://blacklist.eff.org/] up top in the logo and try to talk about it in our news stream. Sorry we can't afford to be more dramatic about our activism, we'd certainly like to be.