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NZ blacks out Internet to protest guilt upon accusation law

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Re: NZ blacks out Internet to protest guilt upon accusation law

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Post by jackowayed »

Not that I would condone illegal activity, but why not disconnect the Internet at the lawmakers' office buildings?

Or, even better, after the 28th, setup a server in the office building hidden somewhere that's sharing a ridiculous amount of copyrighted material.

And do it in such a way that the police will find out. Then the police have to choose between breaking a stupid law and disconnecting the people who passed it.

Re: NZ blacks out Internet to protest guilt upon accusation law

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Post by patio11 »

Headline has some accuracy issues unless you buy "Japan ate an English muffin this morning" because a) I did and b) I'm in Japan.

Maybe "Group in NZ urges black out of personal pages to protest Guilt Upon Accusation law". Or if you wanted to grind the axe the other way, "Group in NZ urges black out of personal pages to protest anti-piracy law".

Re: NZ blacks out Internet to protest guilt upon accusation law

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Post by patio11 »

jackowayed wrote: post #2

Not that I would condone illegal activity, but why not disconnect the Internet at the lawmakers' office buildings? Or, even better, after the 28th, setup a server in the office building hidden somewhere that's sharing a ridiculous amount of copyrighted material. And do it in such a way that the police will find out. Then the police have to choose between breaking a stupid law and disconnecting the people who passed i…

I would hate to see what "condoning" looks like for you.

Re: NZ blacks out Internet to protest guilt upon accusation law

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Post by jackowayed »

patio11 wrote: post #4
jackowayed wrote: post #2

Not that I would condone illegal activity, but why not disconnect the Internet at the lawmakers' office buildings? Or, even better, after the 28th, setup a server in the office building hidden somewhere that's sharing a ridiculous amount of copyrighted material. And do it in such a way that the police will find out. Then the police have to choose between breaking a stupid law and disconnecting the people who passed i…

I would hate to see what "condoning" looks like for you.

It looks more-or-less the same, except that I'm not kidding when I condone.

Re: NZ blacks out Internet to protest guilt upon accusation law

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Post by cookiecaper »

Cool, this expression is about as useful as boycotting gas companies for one day. Anyone who thinks things like this that go down on social networking sites scares the politicians is so naive and silly. The lawmakers aren't going to listen until their threatened with the loss of a big special interest or something arises that could potentially generate a large enough stink in the media that the population doesn't vote for them anymore.

Blacking out profile pictures on Facebook will do basically nothing to help. They need to demonstrate that a lot of people are really pissed off about this. They need something like the Anonymous Anti-Scientology demonstrations, not just a bunch of people that lawmakers perceive as angsty hipsters blacking out their social networking profiles for one day.

I agree that this law seems horrendous, so hopefully someone with a little more experience gets in front of it and figures out a way to stop the thing before it takes effect.

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