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 pestaa on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @07:53PM (#3454535)

What's the probability that major websites join the movement?

One one hand a 24-hour outage would result in loss of a couple of bucks, but on the other, they in fact participated in the IPv6 day, so I'm not sure.

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Re:Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA? by tobtoh on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @08:04PM (#3454569)

One of the proposals I saw was not a complete blackout but for a interstitial notice to be inserted for 30 seconds (that can't be cancelled). I prefer such a proposal because if you need to look up critical info, you still can.

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Re:Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA? by tomjen3 on Thursday January 12, 2012 @01:36AM (#3455288)

If they do that, I will make an extention to get around it.

The only way to get a bad law stopped is to destroy the people behind it.

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Re:Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA? by kuahyeow on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @08:24PM (#3454641)

see 1) of grand-parent. And remember there are creative ways to do a blackout. Darken the page, map or Google Doodle. Something to raise awareness, and increase coverage. No need to pull the DNS or serve a blank black page

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Re:Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA? by nknight on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @09:11PM (#3454754)

I think they can and should, but I think the IPv6 Day comparison is a bad one. It was a pretty small portion of users with broken IPv6 configurations/networks who were expected to be significantly inconvenienced, not the entire userbase.

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