Re:Wikipedia to Shut Down on Wednesday to Protest SOPA
by msg on Monday January 16, 2012 @03:59PM
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There's a philosophical distinction between suicide and murder and martyrdom. Just like there is between being thrust into a furnace and setting yourself on fire.
I actually don't know what it's going to be like to work on Wednesday without Wikipedia. But I think it's in all our interests to find out and put a face on these bills.
Re:Wikipedia to Shut Down on Wednesday to Protest SOPA
by cryptoz on Monday January 16, 2012 @02:38PM
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> By that token we should teach everyone how bad genocide is by executing a random member of their family.
Uh, no. That's not the same token at all.
Re:Wikipedia to Shut Down on Wednesday to Protest SOPA
by vincentmac on Monday January 16, 2012 @03:02PM
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Looks like we've reached Godwin's Law. That's didn't take too long.
We should certainly get people's attention by doing something very overt like replacing every article with a big dark SOPA message, but there really should still be a way to click through to the information.
> We should certainly get people's attention by doing something very overt like replacing every article with a big dark SOPA message, but there really should still be a way to click through to the information.
That's fine for us mega-nerds, but what about everyone else?