Why Google And Facebook Need To Go Dark To Protest SOPA
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Re: Why Google And Facebook Need To Go Dark To Protest SOPA
#2It would be truly amazing to see this. Reddit going dark is fantastic, but to an extent it's "preaching to the choir"- Reddit is already the centre of SOPA activism.
Google, Facebook or Twitter going dark would be a huge statement. Is there a movement for other sites to go dark on Jan 18th as well? My startup going dark by itself wouldn't have a huge impact, but if it was part of a national day of activism it could be great.
Re: Why Google And Facebook Need To Go Dark To Protest SOPA
#3While this would make a statement, somewhere I saw a good point--someone will be googling to see if the snake that bit them was poisonous. Google is now critical infrastructure, like power. If it goes out, people will quite possibly die.
Re: Why Google And Facebook Need To Go Dark To Protest SOPA
#4While this would make a statement, somewhere I saw a good point--someone will be googling to see if the snake that bit them was poisonous. Google is now critical infrastructure, like power. If it goes out, people will quite possibly die.
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Re: Why Google And Facebook Need To Go Dark To Protest SOPA
#5I don't think Google & Facebook need to go dark to achieve this. Going dark is not something either company would do - the cost is enormous and it would draw real ire from politicians. But Google simply changing it's logo for a day would be enough to magnify the publicity around this issue. That doesn't impact their users or their bottom line, but it gets the job done.
Re: Why Google And Facebook Need To Go Dark To Protest SOPA
#6I don't think Google & Facebook need to go dark to achieve this. Going dark is not something either company would do - the cost is enormous and it would draw real ire from politicians. But Google simply changing it's logo for a day would be enough to magnify the publicity around this issue. That doesn't impact their users or their bottom line, but it gets the job done.
Maybe just a black rectangle in place of the name, with an appropriate link?
Re: Why Google And Facebook Need To Go Dark To Protest SOPA
#7While this would make a statement, somewhere I saw a good point--someone will be googling to see if the snake that bit them was poisonous. Google is now critical infrastructure, like power. If it goes out, people will quite possibly die.
A full blackout of every opposing site wouldn't be necessary to make a very strong statement. Google, for instance, could do a full black out of YouTube but put a full frame, 'click here to continue to your results' ad on their search pages.
Re: Why Google And Facebook Need To Go Dark To Protest SOPA
#8It would be a good idea to run a big black banner on Google instead of going completely dark. Or one interstitial ad that interrupts search for 10 seconds only once a day.
Re: Why Google And Facebook Need To Go Dark To Protest SOPA
#9I don't think Google & Facebook need to go dark to achieve this. Going dark is not something either company would do - the cost is enormous and it would draw real ire from politicians. But Google simply changing it's logo for a day would be enough to magnify the publicity around this issue. That doesn't impact their users or their bottom line, but it gets the job done.
I think the "STOP SOPA" banners on Twitter are pretty effective and if Google added one of those it would be a strong statement - http://www.blackoutsopa.org
Re: Why Google And Facebook Need To Go Dark To Protest SOPA
#10While this would make a statement, somewhere I saw a good point--someone will be googling to see if the snake that bit them was poisonous. Google is now critical infrastructure, like power. If it goes out, people will quite possibly die.
I don't think going dark completely is good, for that very reason. That wouldn't stop Google from making a very prominent display of their argument against SOPA/PIPA -- placing the message on the homepage, featuring it on SERPs, etc.
I think if Google just put the message at somewhere on the homepage, it would have a profound effect, given how bare the Google homepage is. That, of course, wouldn't get the message across to the many people who use built-in search in browsers and other such methods of accessing SERPs.