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Net Companies Consider the "Nuclear Option" To Combat SOPA
Atypical Geek writes "Alec Liu of Fox News reports that Amazon, Facebook and Google are considering a coordinated blackout of the internet to protest SOPA, the Stop Online Privacy Act being debated in Congress. From the article: 'Such a move is drastic. And though the details of exactly how it would work are unclear, it's already under consideration, according to Markham Erickson, the executive director of NetCoalition, a trade association that includes the likes of Google, PayPal, Yahoo, and Twitter.
With the Senate debating the SOPA legislation at the end of January, it looks as if the tech industry's top dogs are finally adding bite to their bark, something CNET called "the nuclear option." "When the home pages of Google.com, Amazon.com, Facebook.com, and their Internet allies simultaneously turn black with anti-censorship warnings that ask users to contact politicians about a vote in the U.S. Congress the next day on SOPA," Declan McCullagh wrote, "you'll know they're finally serious."'"
...not among politicians, but among all the kiddies who can not communicate anymore but via Facebook. Under-18 Doomsday guaranteed.
Religous speak to God. Insane are spoken to by God. When all shut up, one can finally hear Shostakovich in peace
"Alec Liu of Fox News reports that Amazon, Facebook and Google are considering a coordinated a coordinated blackout of the internet to protest SOPA, the Stop Online Privacy Act ... *SNIP*
PIRACY act, it's the Stop Online PIRACY act. Talk about a grammar failure. /GrammarNazi.
Are you the same guy that keeps pointing out that Micro$oft is not actually spelled with a dollar sign?
I do not think Facebook user are comfortable with phones.
Unless they can text their representatives.
"OMG! Stop that SOPA thing and gime back my Facebook!"
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
I have to second what the AC said below. That is the most idiotic thing I've heard in a long time.
You're really asking us what the difference is between choosing not to say something or having your government making sure you don't say a given thing? If you are a US citizen AND you would say such a thing, I suggest you print out your Constitution and Declaration of Independence and henceforth use it to wipe your ass with.
Wow.
Alec Liu of Fox News reports that Amazon, Facebook and Google are considering a coordinated blackout of the internet to protest SOPA
Even if Congress relents, they should do it. It would be just too cool of a spectacle not to!
It would also be fun to read the next day in the news how American office worker productivity had a temporary spike upwards.
It really isn't right for Google et al to do this. Each congress member has paid handsomely for their position, and it comes with certain rights and expectations. One is the right to sneak through these kind of laws to help pay back, in a manner of speaking, those that helped them get to where they are today.
This has been the status quo for decades and people need to honor that and understand that they have no right to mess with it.
"cheers" is used as a valediction.
What!? "Cheers" is a toast! You mean to tell me I've been getting slobbering shitfaced reading your posts, and you haven't even been trying to keep up? =(
Thank you, Edward Snowden.
"Arguments from authority are worthless." —Carl Sagan
They came after his planet ... and he started working to find a solution.
Then they came after his child.
Nobody comes after his child.
GORE
Summer, 2012.
The coordinated effort of a group of companies/individuals to deny access to voting information in an effort to deny the vote.
Around here we don't call that election tampering, we call that Fox News.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.