A day without Internet
In order to protest the proposed US regulation known as SOPA The following websites will close down for 24 hours on January 23ed:
Yahoo!
Foursquare
Wikipedia
Amazon
Mozilla
AOL
eBay
PayPal
IAC
OpenDNS
Zynga
Source + explination of what SOPA is in Spanish: http://tecnologia.univision.mobi/content.html?nafurl=http://feedsyn.univision.com/contentXml?cid=824058&contentType=article&partner=mia
I really hope it doesn't include all goggle services... although I guess I can live a day without Gmail.. The list of sites is sure to grow. I would take down my web for the day page if I thought anyone ever visited it ever heh.
Will this affect you?
Do you think the internet should change?
Could you live without internet?
13 Answers
Here is a link to a site that explains what SOPA is and what will happen if it is passed.
I will be missing all those sites if they do shut down that day, but I think the protest is a good thing. The government is trying to censor the internet! >.<
I don't think anything should change. Everything is fine just the way it is.
No, I could not live without the internet! :D
I'm afraid that even though I don't like the occupy movement one bit, this could be an excuse to shut down websites that allow users to organize themselves. The internet is a huge tool for social change as we've seen in the east it can really help to change things. I think world governments are afraid. Imagine on youtube you have a video like the one that came out recently of the police officers planting evidence, or the film of an army helicopter shooting civilians known as "collateral murder" imagine on the same website you have an unauthorized Lady Gaga video...
Maybe I'm paranoid, but I don't see why the entire site should be shut down over one infringement unless...
A news analysis in the information technology magazine eWeek stated, "The language of SOPA is so broad, the rules so unconnected to the reality of Internet technology and the penalties so disconnected from the alleged crimes that this bill could effectively kill e-commerce or even normal Internet use. The bill also has grave implications for existing U.S., foreign and international laws and is sure to spend decades in court challenges."
If one person uploaded one picture of Simba the lion king to twitter (twitpic) then twitter could be shut down indefinitely rather than the system as it is now, where twitter are contacted and asked to remove the picture. Same with Spanishdict, Ebay, Amazon etc.
What about websites run in other countries? Can the US touch them? Because it seems a bit unfair if they can. I know most of the big ones are US based, but I don't think one organization should have control over the entire internet.
Also someone mention copyright issues on Twitter. A site that exists for user contributions is going to have a copyright issue somewhere (it's inevitable, think about how many people on facebook must have been tagged in a photo that contains copyrighted material). Does SOPA give them a stranglehold over these sites, to turn them off when they feel like it?
I wonder how much of the Internet the people who make this bill understand. The thought that we may be seeing the end of the Internet's golden age is a sad one.
To answer your questions rabbitwho....
1 - Don't know (yet)
2 - I think change is inevitable, especially with something like the 'net.
3 - Well, there was a time in the long ago past that I did survive without the 'net. But without the net there'd be no Spanishdict. I'd live but I'd be very sad indeed
(I've just had the most horrible thought - I'd have to go back to actually doing housework and cooking and such like 
What a horrible thought! I don't have television and it's winter here. I do have a lot of other things to catch up on. Hey rabbit. I'd like to know where your blog is. I'll go visit it. Gracias por la información.
I guess I'll have to go back to reading a book in the bath...
It would not be a great conflagration here in Schools because we are all on
holidays and the school term in Victoria does not start until Wednesday the
6th February ,I think New South Wales is the same , Queensland starts on
the 23rd January a Monday so there will be very little work done on that day .
As for the rest of us we can probably all take a well needed rest and read a
book , in Spanish of course. 
Wikipedia was supposed to shut down today, but it only shut down in English and if you disable javascript it works the same as usual. What a joke, either you care or you don't care. You can't half care, it's like they hiccuped in protest.
Excuse me, but last time I noticed I didn't live in North Korea. The government isn't supposed to come and block websites without trial or notification. However, there has already been legislation (NDAA, signed into law on December 31st, 2011) like this passed - not having to do with the internet, per say, but it follows in the same type of legislation - censorship. This law allows for anyone who
was part of or substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners," and anyone who commits a "belligerent act" against the U.S. or its coalition allies
to be arrested by the military and held without trial! Commits a "belligerent act" against the U.S. or it's allies? How nebulous is that? I don't like terrorists and I'm not in league with them but I DO NOT want ANYONE being arrested and being held indefinetly without trial.
NDAA passed both the House and the Senate because nobody actually heard about it. It was never in the news. I only bring this up because SOPA is just like this bill. It's unconstitional and it's censorship. I for one totally support this blackout because people need to know about SOPA. If NDAA can pass the House and the Senate so can this if people don't protest.
Some interesting info on NDAA, SOPA, and the blackout:
I'll just wash the car and desanitize the bathroom or clean out drawers or something- even knit and watch telelnovelas per espanol. You like Comisario Rex? I don't understand half of what they say (Iwould if it were written) but it's fun to immerse myself. There's this one guy on Desafio Extremo and he is a castillian fisherman, boy, is he hard to understand, plus he gets so excited and goes so fast.
The easiest for me is Planeta Feroz. Maybe I take solace in the simplicity of the animals and their basic predicaments. manada that's my favorite word - herd.
Has somebody been pulling one of your long furry ears Rabbitwho - maybe it's April Fool's Day in Ireland!!
January 23rd is a Monday!!!! People need these websites, especially AOL, Yahoo, and Google for school and work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What about non-US residents?
And what about tumblr? I know for a fact that thousands of copyrighted pictures are reblogged and posted every day there, usually whaty happens is the user who posted the pic is contacted, and they label it "copyrighted by.." .
So what happens if the government gets involved? At this point, hardly anyone takes offense at the spread of copyrighted materials. Tumblr does have some rules about this, like a limit on how many music tracks can be posted per day (one), but it's a very free site! Personally, I view it as a way to gain popularity for artists, writers, musicians; it's a free way to spread your content.
If SOPA is passed, however, tumblr would certainly be permanently shut down, or at the very least, changed drastically.
Blogging sites like this are (to me) a great example of free speech. We get to post our thoughts and share what we like, promote people, make contests, use our creativity.
How come the government gets to restrict this?
Copyright issues aside, when did it become okay for government to decide who gets to say what?
