RFC: Blanking all Wikipedia as SOPA protest

Re:RFC: Blanking all Wikipedia as SOPA protest by jacquesm on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @02:35AM (#3346798)

Correction, the web is a lot larger than the United States and I'd really dislike it if internal political discussions of the United States were used to 'black out the web'.

The business dealings of the rest of the world should not be collateral damage because of one nations political affairs.

So if you're going to use 'geo ip targetting' to make things local I'd suggest you use the same mechanism to give a free pass to those from other countries.

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Re:RFC: Blanking all Wikipedia as SOPA protest by rmc on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @06:55AM (#3347234)

Agreed. Make it US only. That has the affect of highlighting how laws like this are a threat to the USA & the internet. i.e. tell the USA politicians that with laws like this, the internet might & associated companies might move out of USA.

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Re:RFC: Blanking all Wikipedia as SOPA protest by freehunter on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @09:07AM (#3347481)

The problem with that is, this would affect companies outside of the US as well. As long as nameservers are hosted here in the States, the USA will have the power to shut down any site, worldwide. Even if the nameservers are moved, the US would still have the power to block all US citizens from accessing the sites. Don't pretend that won't have a profound influence on the world.

Maybe a worldwide blackout would discourage other governments from attempting something similar.

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