Google will protest SOPA using home page

Re:Google will protest SOPA using home page by jiggy2011 on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @02:22PM (#3476104)

Turning google of would effectively turn the internet off for many people. Not sure about deaths (it's possible I guess). I could see the following implications:

Tech support line for every ISP would be ringing off the hook all day. The same for IT support providers as people assume their PC has been hacked or has a virus.

Google receive 1000s of complaints from people swearing to move to bing.

A number of companies get sued due to contractual agreements that somehow relate to websites being accessible to search etc or because emails are not replied to because someone couldn't access their webmail etc.

Hundreds of thousands of homework assignments are not done.

Spike in number of births due to people having sex instead of going online.

SOPA still gets passed.

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Re:Google will protest SOPA using home page by kzrdude on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @03:17PM (#3476291)

Google going dark would be extremely interesting and a valuable lesson for society (that it will fail to understand of course).

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Re:Google will protest SOPA using home page by jiggy2011 on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @03:23PM (#3476314)

True, but I don't think it's a lesson that google wants them to learn.

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Re:Google will protest SOPA using home page by huskyr on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @05:10PM (#3476726)

All those homework assignments are done using Wikipedia. It will be very interesting to see what will happen tomorrow when people can't look up stuff there.

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Re:Google will protest SOPA using home page by RobAtticus on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @05:58PM (#3476921)

Probably the same way I did before Wikipedia: by Googling the topic.

It's nice having all the relevant references on one page, but search results aren't usually too difficult to master either.

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