[governance] Jan 18 : website strike against censorship - can our sitesjoin ?

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

As I see this advertised more and more, I find I really have mixed feeling about it.

In one sense, like all strikes it says , see how much you will miss us if the SOPA/PIPA/New Delhi/../China inspired . censorships moves continue.
And that i very much support.

But who is going to miss them during the strike?  

a. The people who appreciate freedoms of expression - no badly how distorted they are now by moneyed and other powered influences - and beleive this would make it much worse, crowd; or

b. The people who want to shut things down for one reason or another will breath a sigh of relief, show that the world did not end and feel inspired that: yes, they are doing the eight thing.


As for Michael's question related to the IGC  site, I would not object either way.

avri




On 14 Jan 2012, at 10:23, michael gurstein wrote:

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> Subject: BREAKING NEWS: Web Goes on Strike!
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> On Jan. 18th there is going to be an all-out strike on the internet. Websites across the internet are going dark in protest of the internet censorship bills in Congress, SOPA and PIPA.
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> Some of the biggest sites in the world are participating: Reddit, Mozilla. And some others may join (e.g. a leading micro-blogging platform and a popular collaboratively-written encyclopedia), but they need a nudge. If we can get them to join this will be EPIC.
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> Ask the biggest sites on the internet to join the strike. Click here.
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