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Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?

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Re: Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?

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Post by e40 »

VonLipwig wrote: post #185

The answer is no, people who say yes are wrong. You black out your website to raise awareness to the cause. I think it is a fair bet that an extremely high number of HN users know a lot about SOPA / PIPA. So there is no point doing this to educate regulars. Perhaps news will spread. Sure, it will spread in the tech community. In the tech community knowledge of SOPA / PIPA is well known. Shock waves from HN being blac…

> The answer is no, people who say yes are wrong.

When you start an argument like that, I stop reading. Really, that's how you engage people?

Re: Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?

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Post by dexen »

VonLipwig wrote: post #185

The answer is no, people who say yes are wrong. You black out your website to raise awareness to the cause. I think it is a fair bet that an extremely high number of HN users know a lot about SOPA / PIPA. So there is no point doing this to educate regulars. Perhaps news will spread. Sure, it will spread in the tech community. In the tech community knowledge of SOPA / PIPA is well known. Shock waves from HN being blac…

Which headline you'd rather see in NYT tomorrow:

  > A leading enterpreneur community website goes black to protest SOPA.
  ``Our jobs would be endangered'', says PG.
or

  > While discussions rage on the merits of SOPA,
  a leading enterpreneur community remains calm.
  ``We aren't concerned enough to protest'', says PG.

Re: Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?

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Post by kevinh »

rmc wrote: post #234
jarin wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree that it would be "preaching to the choir" and with the name thing, but blacking out HN for a day might also convince HN readers to finally get around to writing their Congresspeople like they've been meaning to (but just haven't gotten around to).

If you must black it out, black it out for the USAians. Some of us don't have members in Congress to write to.

How many people on HN aren't capable of easily getting around regional restrictions for websites?

Re: Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?

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Post by thewisedude »

I thinking HN blacking out is a bad strategy. If Google did that, then its different, because it is responsible for huge amount of web-traffic and there would be uproar among many businesses. Fairly speaking, HN is not such a big player (like Google), silencing itself may be counter productive in that, people might not care and whatever attention it was bringing might be lost for that time frame!
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