Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?

Re:Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA? by hesdeadjim on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @07:28PM (#3454449)

Agreed, shutting down a website that no one in congress reads, knows about, or would care about even if they knew seems pointless to me.

If you want to have real effect continue (or start) to write your congress-person, educate your friends, and pressure them into doing the same. Post on Facebook, twitter, etc.

Compared to these real actions, shutting down HN is useless pageantry.

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Re:Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA? by carlsednaoui on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @08:16PM (#3454613)

I agree with you regarding the fact that no one in congress reads HN, however, I do believe that many people from very big companies (including Google, Facebook, Yahoo, etc) do spend time on HN.

Perhaps "going dark" can help encourage said companies to show support - in a similar way that the Reddit post has triggered this post.

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