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Are you ready for SOPA? - January 18th!

17 January, 2012 16:38 CST6CDT

The Stop On-line Piracy Act (SOPA) is in a full forced backlash from Internet giants such as WikipediA and our beloved BoingBoing whom are participating in the SOPA Strike, a 12 hour period in which volunteer domain owners will turn the electric off to their sites.  The SOPA Strike page link above provides several parked pages to point your domains to among information on how to contact your congressional representatives to voice your opinion.

"January 18th is going to be amazing. Sites are striking in all different ways, but they are united by this: do the biggest thing you possibly can, and drive contacts to Congress. Put this on your site or automate it by putting this JS into your header (the Javascript link is available @ http://sopastrike.com/), which will start the blackout at 8AM EST and end at 8PM EST." - http://sopastrike.com/

The SOPA Strike website contains a list of validated participants along with a list of unfiltered participants of the Internet Blackout.  I will not be participating in the blackout, however I wish to make this unfetchable downfall of our existence on the Internet - to be voted on by Congress January 24th (SOPA), and PIPA which is currently in discussion in the Senate, stop DEAD with help from those that this post may help.  Also see: Internet Blacklist for a video and in depth information in relation to SOPA and PIPA.

"On Jan 24th, Congress will vote to pass Internet censorship in the Senate, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed. We need to kill the bill - PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House - to protect our rights to free speech, privacy, and prosperity. We need Internet companies to follow Reddit's lead and stand up for the web, as we Internet users are doing every day." - http://sopastrike.com/

Here is a small list of 3rd party templates and the official sopastrike.com web page and Javascript code available and ready to use during the protest tomorrow:

  1. Black out your website for 12 hours with this page's HTML, or by putting this Javascript into your site's theme (the Javascript link is available @ http://sopastrike.com/). Tucows is doing this and so is BoingBoing.
  2. Other people have made tools to strike. Some other ways to strike:

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Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English spīwan; akin to Old High German spIwan to spit, Latin spuere, Greek ptyein   First Known Use: before 12th century

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