Glitch? Here‘s How To Beat Wikipedia’s Blackout
- Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:20am by
Mike Opelka
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At midnight last night, a long list of influential websites like Wikipedia, BoingBoing, The912-Project, and even some of the Occupy Wall Street sites have “gone dark” in a brief protest of House Bill 3261 or the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
If you do visit Wikipedia’s homepage today, this is what you will see.
Wikipedia is hoping that the denial of access to the free online encyclopedia will inspire millions to reach out to their representatives and voice displeasure over the proposed legislation.
The block is irritating, but it is possible to get past it and still use the site.
If you absolutely MUST search Wikipedia today, here is how you do it.
As the site starts loading, hit the ESC key – the good old home page will appear.
When you type your search data into the form and hit the enter key, you must also hit the ESC key again.
We tested it this morning, searching for “GBTV.” Here’s what we saw.
As you can see, the blockade can be broken, it just requires a little manual dexterity.
If you are not familiar with the details of SOPA, CBS News has a handy summary of the bill, why it matters to Hollywood and the media producers, and the reasons that many in the online world oppose it.
According to CBS News, this is where the legislation stands;
The Senate is scheduled to hold a procedural vote on PIPA on January 24.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, who sponsored SOPA, said Tuesday he expects the committee to continue work on the House bill in February.
All of the blocks should be lifted tomorrow.
(H/T: Ashleigh Banfield at CNN’s “Early Start”)
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Comments (142)
Tattarax
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:35amWhat is wrong with you Blaze?? Don’t tell people how to do this! Nobody absolutely has to see anything on Wikipedia today. You’re ruining the whole point of the blackout, which is to draw attention to how SOPA and PIPA and the like are garbage attempts at fascistic power grabs.
WAKE UP PEOPLE! And seriously, Glenn, if you don’t speak out about how wrong and unconstitutional these bills are, why should I believe when you talk about anything else??
The only people supporting these bills are the elite of the movie and music industries, and the politicians they’re bought off. These bills will hurt and hamper EVERYONE else, and if you don‘t think you’ll be affected, just wait until your favorite website is blocked because one of their competitors made a bogus claim that your favorite website is using copyrighted material.
And remember I said the word CLAIM. Because that’s the kind of power that SOPA and PIPA has, you don‘t need to prove in a court of law that they’re doing something wrong, you just need to accuse them of it!
Shame on you blaze for reporting this! If you had any integrity, your site would be blacked out today too.
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:38amGlenn has gone away from Fighting for Liberty
He is now Fighting for “God” and is turning towards wanting a Full Theocracy.
Report Post »markgl
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:41amWhats wrong with cheating with the Esc key? If Wikipedia is against SOPA that means they’re cool with illegal content and piracy right? That doesn‘t mean I’m for this bill, but it‘s totally obvious to these sites why they’re against it. So why can’t we pirate Wikipedia too?
Report Post »TedsOfBeverlyHills
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:45amYou won’t be able to hit the ESC key if SOPA passes.
Report Post »ShawnB
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:48amWow, well spoken. You took my words out of my mouth. He used to be a libertarian. Now he just wants to rule a nation under God and that is scary. Look at who he endorsed. Yes he has broken news about the Obama administration but you’re all right he has changed and I been looking for a new person. God he is the one who got me into libertarianism. Glenn is just a sell out and is going against our founders in a lot of there beliefs. Glenn can you say what George Washington grew on on his farm?
Report Post »Xyskalla
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:59amTattarax, are you trying to tell the Blaze what they can and can’t post on the Internet?
Ironic, isn’t it?
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:59am@ShawnB,
Apples, only Apples, Washington would never grow that devil herb……. He was a good “Christian”
@markgl,
you obviously know nothing about Wikipedia, all content on the site is Licensed under a Creative Commons License, which means your free to use it, copy it, and share it all you like, they just ask that you attribute them as the source, no fees, not special deals, free and open content
Report Post »Kael Hyun
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:59amTo those who say Glenn is a Sellout: Glenn Did speak out at the vary beginning of the Radio show today he spent the first 30 minutes talking about how wrong the government getting into the Internet was wrong and how he despises the bills (SOPA and PIPA)
Markgl: there’s a difference between Piracy and what the majority of what the net does. You like listening to a Fan made AMV or a Self recording of a Favorite song? You wouldn’t be able to watch or put up those videos without getting Sued and the whole sight being pulled down.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 12:15pmYou guys clearly missed the first 10 minutes of the show today, where he said that he doesn‘t like the bill and doesn’t want it passed.
That said, I’m sure there are enough annoyed people out there who want to use the site and are going to figure this out anyway.
Personally, I’m against the idea of giving more control over the Internet to anyone, *but* (let’s face it) online piracy IS an issue. The answer is to use laws already in existance, not to create a new one.
Of course, that option wouldn’t allow anyone in D.C. attatch riders for pork or one Statist program or another. Of course, we wouldn’t want that to happen (sarcastically speaking, of course).
Report Post »C-Delta Conductor
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 12:47pmEven though Beck has not specifically mentioned these bills, he is an avid defender of the internet (it is his business’ life blood) and has said that it is the last place for true liberty and free speech… some people are so single issue oriented that they can’t see an ally three inches from their face.
Report Post »Tattarax
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 12:56pm@MarkGL
“If Wikipedia is against SOPA that means they’re cool with illegal content and piracy right?”
Really? I’m sorry, but what an incredibly naive and sophomoric way of looking at the issue. They (Wikipedia, not to mention hundreds of other sites) are against the bill because of the broad scope and unconstitutional power it gives. Don’t believe me? Read about it for yourself at http://americancensorship.org/infographic.html and http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/technical-examination-of-sopa-and.html
Or if you’re not going to bother with that, at least read this from wondermark.com “Massive entertainment companies, mainly movie studios, have presented these bills to Congress as a means to curb online piracy of their content. But the bills are written in a very broad, dangerous way.
To combat the problem of movie piracy, SOPA and PIPA give the government the power to firewall the entire U.S. internet.
This like planting dynamite under a busy highway bridge in order to catch fleeing burglars, then handing the trigger to someone who hates cars.
What’s likely to happen?
• What burglars there are, will take another route. (SOPA/PIPA do not target pirates, but rather sites that link to alleged piracy. Real pirates can easily sidestep the restrictions.)
• Law-abiding business trucks, scared osf the dynamite, will ALSO take another route. (The huge legal and financial burden of compliance with the new law will discourage startups, stifling ind
Report Post »Tattarax
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 1:06pm- got cut off -
based in the United States.)
• The dynamite is likely to go off whenever the trigger person sees anybody who looks slightly suspicious — burglar or not. (Claims of “piracy” could be used as a weapon against websites to silence them for competitive or political reasons.)
Despite the fact that nobody in Congress can agree on health care, the budget, or anything else, bought-and-paid-for politicians from both sides of the aisle have lined up to defend these bills. It’s pretty disgusting. Movie piracy is simply not more important than the safety and integrity of the entire Internet, which is my whole livelihood.” – from wondermark.com
And no, XYSKALLA, I’m not telling The Blaze what they can and cannot post, I’m saying that its *wrong* of them to show how to defeat the blackout. Its no different than any of the (minuscule amounts of) reporting on the blackout for SOPA by other news agencies that I’ve heard. NONE of them have said that there are sites doing a blackout in PROTEST of SOPA…they never use that word protest, they only say something like “drawing attention to”.
I‘m not saying it shouldn’t happen. I’m saying its *wrong*. Most of you people who’ll roll your eyes and look away from something like this would be setting yourselves on fire if Congress was trying to do this with the printed press. Well WAKE UP PEOPLE! The internet is the next “printed press”. The Feds have too much power as it is, lets not
Report Post »foobear
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 1:31pmWikipedia itself says that if you want to read it today, simply disable javascript.
Report Post »skurk
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 2:53pmWell said Tattarax.This bill is about shooting the messenger,
Report Post »and the work of oppressors and should only be supported by someone unfamiliar with the Blaze
Brooke Lorren
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 2:54pmI just loaded all the pages that I thought I would need onto different tabs before the blackout last night. Guess that I didn’t need to go through all that trouble.
I’m against SOPA, but I am not in favor of illegal content. The problem with SOPA is that it is too broad and doesn’t really take into account the way that the Internet works today. For example, although I have two domains of my own, most of my writing is done on sites that also host work done by thousands of other people. If one of those thousands of people is a pirate and posts things that they should not, the entire site could be taken down, along with that source of income for me and thousands of other honest people.
Additionally, there are other things that SOPA doesn’t take into consideration:
1) The vast amount of content on the Internet from years ago. It is nearly impossible to scour everything that you wrote for the last 10-15 years (if you’ve been writing for the Internet that long; I have) and make sure that you didn’t post something that offends the law years ago.
2) Other people passing along copyrighted material as Public Domain or Creative Commons. Many content producers use these works legally, but if someone posts a copyrighted object as creative commons, people might innocently use them.
3) All it takes is an accusation and your site gets taken down for a while. Great to use on your enemies.
This law won’t just affect the piracy of movies, software, and music.
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 3:00pmIt Works
Thank you for everything you do.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:31pmIt is pretty obvious that Beck has sold his soul and the BLAZE is MSM.
Report Post »stans5425
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 5:03pmWhile I love the Blaze, and truly respect what you do, I gotta agree with Tattarax on this one. The whole point was to go without. Jeez…make them open up a book for once!
Report Post »RabidPatriot
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 5:34pmWikipedia is not so important that a self imposed blackout means anything. Who can’t live without it?
Report Post »TakeDat
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 5:34pmYou two obviously havent listed to him. He is saying how this is a power grab. Geesh
Report Post »frust@ted
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 5:53pmI agree that Glenn seems to be transitioning from a more libertarian stance to a theocracy. This is where I always split ways with conservatives/ republicans.
Report Post »Just today he was talking about the founders and how they wanted a libertarian society but the only reason why it would work is because they had morality through their beleif in God. He can’t support a a full libertatian movement becasue people are not moral enough. I really would like him and Rick Santorum to clarify if they supports legislating morality. That is my biggest concern with Santorum and slowly becoming a concern I have with Glenn.
FreedomPurveyor
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 6:09pmIf you have to figure out how to get through the blackout, then you already know a blackout exists, and you know why there is a blackout. The purpose has been served. Making sure that nobody gets to use Wikipedia today isn’t going to affect awareness.
Report Post »LibertarianRight
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 6:32pmActually, one Wikipedia page requires no maneuvering to get to today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
The only page that anyone NEEDS to view on Wikipedia today.
Report Post »SLOWBIDEN
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 6:38pmHow to beat wikipedia?…. lemiwinks bi a tc hes
Report Post »Quiata
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:38pmBut what about those of us who gave financial support (i.e. donated money) to Wikipedia? I feel kind of gypped…
Report Post »Virgil_Lance
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:35pmEasier solution – Google the search term followed by “Wikipedia” then click “cached”.
Report Post »dhb1ibo
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 4:20pmI believe anything that makes Wikipedia go dark can’t be all bad.
Report Post »jsjdjn
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:35amI work for an ISP herein Phoenix! Everone here says “Wikipedia” No one care that your down!!!!! Now if Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Bing/MSN went down then now power would be flexing!!!!
Wikipedia= No one noticed
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:39amIt is not just Wikipedia
Google is going a Soft Black Out
Report Post »Reddit is down
and 100′s of other Sites are blacked out
Solfire
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:48amNo one noticed? O_o Wikipedia gets over 10 million hits a day and reaches almost 15% of the GLOBAL population. It’s the 6th most visited website in the US. It ranks above twitter, craigslist, MSN, and eBay. Them doing a blackout of this abhorrent law is, in the words of Joe “Biteme” Biden, a “big f—— deal.”
Report Post »madasblazes
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 2:52pmGoogle is going an on and off ‘blackout too’.
Report Post »Cousin_of_Marx
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 2:07amYour grammar was blacked out when you posted.
Report Post »Solfire
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:33amFun fact – under SOPA, The Blaze would be illegal as it doesn’t filter all user submitted content and has links to youtube, medialite, etc., which are known to have copyright violations.
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:13amSolfire:
I detect hypocrisy here…, or perhaps you have no respect for copyright laws. I mean if copyrighted material is being ‘stolen’ (by unauthorized usage), then what is your basis for complaint about such activity being curtailed. Is the problem that YOU want to make unauthorized use of copyrighted material?
I am an anti-big-government person, but a primary responsibility of government is to protect private property, and that is central to this issue. I am surprised that so many are knee-jerk reacting to this as ‘limiting free speech’, ‘limiting access’, etc., etc.
There needs to be some rational discussion about the issue. The rights of the property owners legally, and more importantly, morally, supercede some ego-engaged ‘need-to-know’ of everyone that sits down at a keyboard.
Report Post »Solfire
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:51amOn the contrary, I am quite opposed to piracy and copyright violation. I am a web application developer and I have had work stolen from me before; I understand the sins of such violations and I go out of my way to avoid using other people‘s works without permission because I wouldn’t want it done to me.
The problem with SOPA isn’t that it protects copyright owners. It’s that it goes too far in assaulting web hosts and places an unfair and unreasonable burden on them and it opens the door for heavier government regulation of the Internet.
There are already laws on the books that will allow you to sue the pants off of someone that steals your material and posts it online. Does that work 100% of the time? No, but neither do laws against shoplifting.
To expand on the shoplifting analogy: If SOPA were against shoplifting, it would allow Matel to shut down Walmart because someone stole a barbie from the store. (Not a perfect example, but it goes against the host for the crimes of the user, so it’s not a terrible analogy.)
Youtube actively peruses copyright violations as do many other user-based content sites. This law would effectively shut down such websites and label them as piracy havens.
I understand that people pirating movies and music all day long via bittorrent and the like is bad for the industry and I don’t condone such actions. But a big government overreaching law is NOT what is needed. ISPs are already beginning to crack down on piracy d
Report Post »Solfire
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:55amoops… my textwall hit the character limit. Continued….
ISPs are already beginning to crack down on piracy due to bandwidth limitations as is. Netflix is eradicating a lot of piracy due to the legal availability of instant movies. Music purchasing services are becomming prefered methods of getting songs. The free market is correcting much of the problem that SOPA seeks to go nuclear on.
Many news and political sites could be shut down under SOPA when it is clearly not the intent of the law. If it could only target blatant theft, that would be one thing, but SOPA is a power grab that is simply not justified.
Report Post »Solfire
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:26amHas The Blaze posted stories in opposition to SOPA? All I‘ve noticed was this article and it would be sad if the only SOPA story they have is how to bypass Wikipedia’s protest of it.
Surely Glenn et al are opposed to it?
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:41amGlenn is too busy trying to get Rick “the Bibleman” Santorum Elected to worry about Freedom and Liberty
Report Post »Solfire
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:48amI thought his middle name was “Frothy”?
Report Post »Dishevel
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:39amGlenn has not said anything about this.
Report Post »I think he is worried that someone might share his book only 20 years after he dies instead of the legally mandated 70 years.
Copyright is a broken contract. Copyright is an artificially given right to encourage new creations to enrich the public domain. But because of copyright maximalists NOTHING enters the public domain.
We have given and received nothing in return. In fact it seems that the courts are now taking the few things that have leaked into the public domain and taken them back out.
Anyone defending the current state of Copyright or Patent law is either a lawyer or a big media shill or uninformed. Glenns silence on this is incredibly loud.
Kael Hyun
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:48amGlenn is aposed to it he said so viamently at the begining of the Radio Show. Blaze I sugest you take this down ASAP
Report Post »ShawnB
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:52amGlenn lost his libertarianism…
Report Post »chrisst41
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:44pmsolfire, “Many news and political sites could be shut down under SOPA when it is clearly not the intent of the law.” Maybe that is exactly what the intent of the law is………If they are really out to get me, am I still paranoid?
Report Post »slr4528
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:21amDoes anyone have a list of senators and reps who are supporting these bills? I heard it had bipartisan support…which tells me that the progressives are fully entrenched in both parties.
Romney is strongly opposed because he believes that these regulations will kill business. What are the other candidates views. I believe Obama is for it but he is waiting until after the elections like Keystone.
Report Post »Solfire
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:15amhttp://www.spatialsituation.com/sopa-map/
Report Post »Locked
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:53amOr just run No-Script like most internet-literate people do and block the script that would otherwise black out the site…
Fun fact: this also disables the ads that use your personal information and cookies on sites The Blaze.
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:01amJavascript and cookies are needed for most modern website that have any advanced features, blocking all cookies and javascript sends you back the the 90′s web
Boring
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:13amI don’t want to beat or cheat the blackout.
I support their protest of the takeover of the internet.
RESIST THE NAZI POLICE STATE!!!!
Report Post »superbyelich
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:23amYes Locked, I use adblock, adblock element hider, and noscript also. The most amazing thing that I block with my element hider on this site is that stupid little thing that pops up on the right of the screen telling you about other articles… If I want another article I will hit my back button.. stop suggesting them for me. This is the great things such plugins can do for you.
Report Post »MS-GlenNBC
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:51am6 degrees of Newt Gingrich, by Glenn Beck
Glenn, Congratulations, you were able to tie Newt Gingrich to this too. You Pat and Stu are amazing.
No matter what the story, no matter how bad the situation, you can make it about Newt Gingrich.
The Mitt Romney Super Pac Lives here……. The Truth has died.
Report Post »Grahame
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:58amWhere does this story mention Newt? Am I missing something?
Report Post »MS-GlenNBC
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:15amOn his Radio Show…
He was able to bring Newt Gingrich into this.
Just like when he was talking about the book How to Kill 11 million people.
Just listen at 8:32 seconds and you will find Newt Gingrich is just a dangerous as the Nazi’s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGFxEupRK0E
It was a great interview and I bought the book last night with Ameritopia from Mark Levin but there is no reason for Glenn to Mention Newt Gingrich when talking about this book.
Report Post »RejectFalseIcons
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 3:17pmThe truth didn’t die.. it’s just sitting comfortably waiting for you to find it.
On infowars.
Sure, there might be some truly crackpot stuff over there, but they have been spot on about EVERY assault on our liberties since I started following it about 3 years ago.
Report Post »judy1270
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:35amHow funny Obama, used the Internet to get elected in 2008………..now he has to shut it down to get reelected………….! Wow looks like he took a few tips from Iran……….on how to keep the poor stupid people in line……………
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:58amHe’s put it on hold until after the elections so the masses will be fooled again..They won’t like him so much after this goes into effect..The dictator..the hollywood elitests..the kings and queens…and us the sheeple..I wish the public could break its love affair with \Hollywood and just support Christian films and Christian actors…
Report Post »urnotserious
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:15amYou aren‘t seriously trying to imply this is big bad ’bama’s fault are you? Please read up on what SOPA and PIPA are and who supports them before you show yourself a fool once more. (heres a hint, the whitehouse does not support the bills)
And about the “…and just support christian films and christian actors,” we aren’t all the same religion or even type of christian as you, so don’t try to ram it down our throats. I sure hope you aren’t implying we need the government to regulate what films can be shown…
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:33amThe powerful want, and must have, control of the internet. It is too large a weapon for citizens, because it enables us to check and report the real truth instantaneously. When there was no internet, they controlled the message. With the internet, we control the message.
Report Post »Norma Perez
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:23amWhat do you expect for free? Government needs to stay out of the internet and stop trying to control its content so they can dish out more propaganda. I’m tired of “but the children” “the children!” Parents need to be monitoring their children not government. Are we going to become China, who blocks everything except the propaganda they want fed to their people? In China, the government controls the internet and its contents. If you are caught going somewhere you aren’t suppose to be, you can face some serious charges, up to and including death. Congress needs to get its powers back from these “ABC” bureaucratic types, they are becoming irrelevant.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:19amI don’t TRUST wiki anything. All too liberal. WHO CARES if they shut down? NOT ME. GO AWAY. :)
Report Post »amdoktor
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:45amIt’s not about WIKI at all, its about our Government and control. We are supposed to be a free Nation and the reason we are losing our freedoms is because as you say “It doesn’t effect me who cares” It is the principle of a free society granted by our Constitution to protect ALL of our rights. You will be the first one to cry when YOUR freedoms and rights disappear. If you can,t see that this Administration is trying to control every aspect of our lives. Then I truly feel sorry for you.
Report Post »urnotserious
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:19amWikipedia tries to give (and quite successfully succeeds at that) unbiased facts. Is that what liberal means to you? Sure hope not…
Report Post »maryjsteng
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:05amI noticed right away on Facebook this morning all the young folks who don’t vote and generally seemed to not care so much–suddenly have noticed politics. LOL.. no google, no wikipedia.. :) This is GREAT!
Report Post »Moe1138
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:01amThe only thing Wikipedia knows it revisionist history…it can just go away.
Report Post »Doctor Nordo
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:37amRight…
Report Post »brickmoon
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:51amVia Andy Levy — Scroll down on Katie Notopoulos’ Twitter feed for some tragically hilarious retweets from frustrated students. Pray for our yoot. Content warning for language.
https://twitter.com/#!/katienotopoulos
Report Post »junkman104
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:30amWiki-who?
Report Post »cvs334
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:42amHa .. but really we should contact our representatives and stop this soon .. it’s not just about sharing copy-written material, it’s limiting your ability to get information … this will limit stuff getting out and it will again be controlled by the few. There are enough laws that protect the copyrights … enforce them. Anyway all this will do is hurt the nations hosting companies, since effected sites will flock to freedom overseas … therefore losing American jobs!!
Report Post »ROMANS 10-9
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:30amWIKI’s info is flawed anyway, Who cares about them?
Vote Obama OUT!
Report Post »Comenius
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:19amThis is about Obama and his ilk getting control of the internet. It‘s not about copyright infringement just like Obamacare isn’t about health care. We conservatives get our news from the internet. Can we rely on the “news” networks for the truth? The internet is our conduit to the truth and libs want to get their foot in the door and this is the way.
Report Post »reasonablerhetoric
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 1:41pmA Republican, Lamar Smith, is the sponsor of the bill. Obama’s administration has publicly opposed SOPA and PIPA. How about you do a little research before you open your mouth?
Report Post »PreacherMW
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:18amQuit making this more difficult than it has to be. Disable javascript in your browser to view wikipedia as normal.
Report Post »ISeeDanger.com
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:12amBefore you “buy into the hype”… I suggest you read this. It’s about doing the RIGHT thing and having morals. http://stopthejunk.com/wikipedia-and-google-now-supporting-child-porn/
Report Post »Thought many here would approve.
the_ancient
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:34amOhh Please
Anyone that uses the Phrase “If you have do nothing wrong you have nothing to fear” is a moron and should not be listened to
Further anyone that has followed the absolute ABUSE of CURRENT law content providers have done knows that SOPA is a TERRIBLE law and should be opposed by EVERYONE.
Further if you have any regards to online Security, esp DNSSEC, then you also know that SOPA makes the Internet Less Secure
So save the Hyperbolic “save the children” non-sense, only a moron would buy in to that
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:00amI agree with the ancient one.Oh, one more thing ,if you have nothing to hide, then why is there no bio in the about us page of the web site?Isn’t that just a little hypocritical?
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:47am@objectivetruth lol, and they do not even publish there WhoIS info, they used GoDaddy a HUGE SOPA supporter and used they Proxy service to shield their identity
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Registrant:
Domains By Proxy, LLC
Registered through: Go Daddy
Domain Name: STOPTHEJUNK.COM
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Plus they disallowed comments on that post… Cowards all of them
Report Post »Solfire
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:12amFortunately, even Godaddy came around and dropped their support of SOPA after a huge backlash. These charges of Wikipedia and Google supporting the exploitation of minors is just an absurd charge. I would try to make a compelling argument against it but if you believe that then I don’t see how any amount of logic can get through.
Saying that Wikipedia supports that is like saying that Obamacare will fix the healthcare system or that Gingrich will clean up politics.
Report Post »pmeighen
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:55amTo beat this black out is easy. Just use an app on a mobile device and leave your computer alone for today.
Report Post »LadyLiberty
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:09amI was going to say that, but you beat me to it. Also, it’s called a LIBRARY folks. Try it out.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:16amPlease. I’ve never searched Wikipedia. There are far too many places with accurate information much more in depth than some “honor” system definition derivative.
What is it that you need to see or hear to prove to you that their “IS” no individual honor any longer? Dogma, indoctrination and the totalitarian state are all that matter any more. You won’t get 100%of the truth 100% of the time from a socialist philosophy corporation.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:50amAt my college they would not let anyone use Wiki for reference because it is so bad at inaccuracies. I agree.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:05amI only use wiki as a source, if I’ve already verifyed the information from elsewhere.Thats both online and in the real world.My minimum if at least four sources.Wiki has certain sections that are extremely accurate and others not.
Report Post »DesertRose1960
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:35am@Westcoastpatriot, What college are you attending? With your errors in grammar, I’m surprised a reputable college would admit you. Your phrase, “so bad at inaccuracies” is nonsensical mess. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, no teacher above fifth grade will accept an encyclopedia as a reference. Encyclopedias are brief summations of generally available knowledge over a broad number of subjects. A university would certainly not allow you to site any encyclopedia, not just Wikipedia; but you are able to begin your research with an encyclopedia, to familiarize yourself with subject before getting into serious materials. Wikipedia also has original source material referenced in the footnotes which could be sited if you actually read the material. College professors may no let students use Wikipedia, however, there are growing numbers of college professors who assign the writing and submitting of articles to Wikipedia as a learning tool. The professors want their students to be able to research and explain complex subjects, often scientific, in at a middle school level, to people unfamiliar with the concept.
Report Post »Brooke Lorren
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 3:15pmI use Wikipedia all the time, and sometimes as a source (I don’t write college papers though). Of course, Wikipedia is never my only source of information; many of the times when I use it in articles, I usually am using it to verify something that I already know or to find a hard-to-dispute fact (when did Steve Jobs die, in what year did the Spanish Armada attack England, etc.).
While I don’t write pages for Wikipedia, I do edit the pages whenever I see a mistake. I generally only have to make minor edits, although I did have to remove vandalism once.
Report Post »pmeighen
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:53amTo beat this, its easy. Just use an app on your smart phone, IPOD, IPAD or Android device..
Report Post »shirtsbyeric
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:46amThey should have made it a whiteout, less they get accused of racism.
Report Post »Corsair
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:45amToo bad we didn’t hit the escape key when the current administration was loading…..
Report Post »mrfunn
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:43amI’ve just been to a number of Wikipedia pages, no blackout. No Esc necessary.
Report Post »I’m using the english version. Maybe the firefox settings or addons I have installed?
Pontiac
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 3:17pm@mrfunn
Report Post »If you have Adblock Plus or something similar and added “meta.wikimedia.org” to the filter list then the blackout wont appear. I think the meta url also included that stupid banner at the top so blocking that url should block much of the crap wiki throws at you.
Gonzo
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:38amOh thank you Blaze… I might not have made it through the day.
Report Post »Mike Opelka
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:44amGonzo, We’re here to help!
Report Post »masters11111
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:33amthrow congress under the bus when you find out how they voted on this.They are a true threat to america
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