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you can still access wikipedia if you turn off your javascript
If they turned it off for 2 weeks or a month, I'd actually give a ****.
You'll give a **** if SOPA/PIPA passes and a lot of the internet goes dark permanently without due process thanks to lobbying from the movie and music industry.
If you need Wikipedia today:
Create a bookmark, called something akin to "Show Wikipedia" and paste this as the address...
Code:javascript:$("*").show(); $("#mw-sopaOverlay").hide();
Then, when you visit a wikipedia page simply click the bookmark.
Discovered by a Dev on XDA.
It works fine, just put an m in between the en and wiki.
Like so: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken
[TW]Fox;21060104 said:Just hit escape before it loads the overlay.
Wikipedia is not actually down, it just redirects to that page, if you press the stop button you can still use wikipedia fine.
Bypassing the blackout kind of defeats the point.
However you think they would have done a better job like some other sites. I like the 2600.com one.
What parts of the internet would go dark permanently without due process if these acts were to pass?
RockPaperShotgun.com said:Any site that has comments, a forum, video streaming, user content in any form, is in real danger of being destroyed by SOPA and PIPA. YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter... The internet, as this wonderful, extraordinary, free and beautiful thing, would be broken forever.
It seems a bit pointless if I'm honest.
I know right? What's one of the biggest websites in the world going to do to raise awareness to your average person if it blacks out?
Any site which allows user content, on which a user has wittingly or unwittingly posted a link to copyright material. The now blacked-out www.rockpapershotgun.com site explains it a bit better.
So Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, OCUK Forum etc could be forced to shut down by US law if this bill is passed.
No, that is what sites could go dark using the tightest (and therefore easiest challanged) reading of the act possible. What sites are actually likely to go dark?
Any site which MPAA decide they don't like the look off. This includes YouTube - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/may/04/viacom-youtube
If the law was in place when the above court case took place, YouTube would have been taken offline.
So Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, OCUK Forum etc could be forced to shut down by US law if this bill is passed.
As its US law you'd think it would only block access to Americans/sites hosted in America.
I think I hate it primarily because of all the unfunny meme **** it spews.
I'm sick of this whole meme ****.