I am thinking of installing fedora on my laptop as a sign of protest.
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?
#272The 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?
Yeah, it'd have been better had he written "The answer is no; people who say yes are right."
Re: Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?
#273No, because going dark purpose is to spread awareness and everyone here already knows / understands.
Re: Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?
#274Readers of HN generally already oppose SOPA. To do so would be to take out our hub for news and info on the topic. You would accomplish nothing other than having us look elsewhere. Bad call.
Re: Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?
#275The 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…
It's not to educate, it's to motivate. If HN is down, that's a way of saying "You should be calling your senator right now" if you're an American. For others it's just a reminder of how serious this issue is.
Any site with user contributed content could be kicked off the internet, and HN is one of those.
Re: Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?
#276No, because going dark purpose is to spread awareness and everyone here already knows / understands.
There's a difference between awareness and action. We need to take action. Going dark would help those who've not written/called/met with their representatives to do so, before it's too late.
Re: Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?
#277When we talk about going dark we are talking about US viewers only right? I have no power to change SOPA so there is no point protesting to me.
This bill will not just affect those of us who live in the US. And there's not really any reason you can't send letters to US representatives anyways. At worst they might ignore them. Or, you can contact your country's ambassador to the US and ask them to weigh in on the matter.
These actions might not have any effect, but it's better than just throwing your hands up in the air.
Re: Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?
#278There is no way that anybody who browses this site hasn't heard about SOPA.
Re: Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?
#279Earlier quoted context omitted.
This rang very true with me. I'm willing to wager only a tiny percentage of HN users have communicated their opposition to SOPA/PIPA to their representatives. Something like providing links to appropriate resources would convert time usually spent browsing HN into time actually helping stop SOPA/PIPA.
Easy ways to take some actions: https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr3261 click on 'Oppose' https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/s968 click on 'Oppose' Slightly harder: http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/pipa_sopa (Sends modifiable form email to your Senator and Representative). Add a comments to the PopVOX entries Go viral and tweet/facebook/G+ the DemandProgress page. Harder still: - Lookup your Senator and Repre…
You can always add a POPVOX widget to the site, so people can send a message to Congress directly from HN.
http://popvoxnation.tumblr.com/post/15753030372/protesting-s...
Re: Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?
#280Fuck no. Why should we penalize ourselves because they are idiots? It makes no sense whatsoever.