Reddit blacking out Jan 18th in protest of SOPA

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The freedom, innovation, and economic opportunity that the Internet enables is in jeopardy. Congress is considering legislation that will dramatically change your Internet experience and put an end to reddit and many other sites you use everyday. Internet experts, organizations, companies, entrepreneurs, legal experts, journalists, and individuals have repeatedly expressed how dangerous this bill is. If we do nothing, Congress will likely pass the Protect IP Act (in the Senate) or the Stop Online Piracy Act (in the House), and then the President will probably sign it into law. There are powerful forces trying to censor the Internet, and a few months ago many people thought this legislation would surely pass. However, there?s a new hope that we can defeat this dangerous legislation.

We?ve seen some amazing activism organized by redditors at /r/sopa and across the reddit community at large. You have made a difference in this fight; and as we near the next stage, and after much thought, talking with experts, and hearing the overwhelming voicesfrom the reddit community, we have decided that we will be blacking out reddit on January 18th from 8am?8pm EST (1300?0100 UTC).

Source: http://blog.reddit.c...n-this-all.html

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I'd like to see a massive "blackout" where the backbone owners shut down their fiber for a couple hours in response. I realize that'll cause a sh*t load of issues, but maybe DNS servers can be shutdown for a couple hours?

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probably this what Im about to say is an heresy but how about this SOPA stop google/facebook/twitter/etc stop spying us?. Or the government have a backdoor for that? :p

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