I'm highly confused about this post.

Adblock isn't illegal, blocking page forwarding.. how is that illegal? Just to note I always adblock their near monthly donation annoyance. I guess that's illegal too?

Secondly, Bell, Rogers, Telus, Videotron, they all pretty much meter internet and have for a while now -- Videotron for around a decade. Where you got this "we've put a stop to it" when I look at my Bell e-bill and see the opposite is beyond me.

Neither of these have anything to do with SOPA, however, and politicians that get money from this industry seem intent on passing it regardless of what their constituents think.

In doing so, they also highlight how easy it is to have your IP blocked as well.

Of course, even having your IP blocked still isn't foolproof. This legislation is a war of escalation, one that governments have no hope of winning. The internet just gets bigger guns.

Ahhh.... how the lead of information is poisoning our watersources of government.

Anyone know why the Elderscrolls wikia is out for the day yet other wikias seem to be up (Fallout, Dragon Age etc)?

All wikis on the Wikia network are run by their own communities. Wikia staff rarely makes decisions for one single wiki, so I'd imagine it was just the guys on the TES Wiki that decided to blackout today.

Keep working on Papanet. We'll need it in the sequel: SOPA Episode II: Big Business Strikes Back.

Keep it around. Patent it. Sell it. Then, everybody can have their very own internet, all thanks to Old Andy (aka Loquacious of Borg). Even Steve Jobs didn't accomplish that!

No, there isn't. They're just trying to lull us into a false sense of security. Trust me, SOPA will return. Only next time, they'll try to fly it in under the radar. We must remain vigilant! The Death Eaters SOPA supporters will not abandon their Dark Lord quest.

Remember to sign this petition if you want your voice heard:
https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/
(americans only, zip and e-mail needed).

done

I mean illiegal as in it would be frowned upon. Sorry, I was just being lazy and not thinking of a better word.

You have OBVIOUSLY been living under some kind of rock or something if you havent heard of Canadas stop the meter. This is the website used to rally Canadians (usually an impossible task given our slack nature). We technically have metered internet now, but this was metered internet on crack. 50-60 gigs or less per month. After that they would start to pay you per gig ect. Thankfully it's been stopped, because that would have been bad. http://stopthemeter.ca/ My post was kind of relevant to the whole idea of internet protection, and keeping it safe from people/corporations who would like to be in complete control of it.

Edit
Because of the success of the petition openmedia.ca is an actual thing now that reguarily watches for suspect bills and alerts those on their email list. Here's a video they helped to release, though how extensive they were involved in it I have no idea. http://vimeo.com/29263468 http://vimeo.com/29262998 http://vimeo.com/29262823

Done. Shared on facebook as well, along with that quote from TotalBiscuit that was linked earlier in the thread.

Apparantly, wikiperia is agains the whole consept of legislation on the internet moved by Sopa and Pipa, and is having a 24 hour blackout.

Go check it out!

What's a wikiperia?

And we know that, seeing as the majority of this thread is about that.

Anyone know enough about the OPEN Act, an alternative to SOPA/PIPA, to have opinions on it?

Oh my god I hope some people are trolling.

My personal favorites

There are more, on twitter look for herpderpedia, cant link due to language. But I truely fear for when these people are voters and manage to breed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDA1HUmuuJo

Do you really think a bunch of suits can control the SMALL, WIRELESS Internet? Ahahah.

haha could be their humor though

I doubt they are all that stupid.

http://www.google.com.eg/search?hl=en&cp=8&gs_id=1m&xhr=t&q=syria+war&biw=1332&bih=830&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=EUgXT661H4HoObqbre8D

i live there so driver where you taking us?

Berners-Lee must have gone through the roof when he found out.

Ow...those are painful to read. I hope to god those people are kidding...but most probably aren't.

Yeah, I think I'll dye my napkin black and then tear it in protest.

Seriously. People like Caligula, Napoleon or Pelagius the 3rd have been up to silly [censored] all the time, and it's only sad that United States congressmen have delusions of grandeur that big to think they can dictate freedom of speech.

Nice


http://www.switched.com/2010/02/12/readwritewebs-facebook-log-in-fiasco-angers-confounds-google/

So is SOPA basically gonna turn the internet into a police state, kinda like East Germany after the war?

Inspired in the sense that people have a chance to change the way thier country operates, but I am utterly disgusted by how the goverment in Syria operates and the heavy hand they have used to crush rebellion.

My apologies for your troubles, I did not mean to poke fun but was rather only trying to offer hope that things will get better.

There is the potential to, and that alone is enough.

Not immediately but it does open the door to that route.