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Re:2 days before SOPA vote I will shutdown my websites in pr... by polyfractal on Saturday December 24, 2011 @10:56AM (#3389067)
I don't mean to be "that guy", but unless your sites have a lot of traffic from non-technical people, I frankly doubt anyone will care.

Most techies already know about SOPA, already dislike it and have probably already signed a petition/called/written. If they haven't by now, they aren't going to.

Putting a message on a tech blog/website is like preaching to the choir at this point.

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Re:2 days before SOPA vote I will shutdown my websites in pr... by Benares on Saturday December 24, 2011 @07:54PM (#3390135)
My sites are relatively insignificant, I only reach an audience of 100k-200k users.

My post was intended as a message of encouragement for those with a significant non-techie userbase to bite the bullet and consider a protest shutdown.

It's my belief that non-techie users are far more likely to take an anti-SOPA shutdown maintenance page more seriously than a forum post or added element in the regular page layout of a site.

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