Topic

Many major sites going blackout for sopa (will glitch/tinyspeck?)

Now I'm not American and some of these sites that are going offline are affecting the whole world now I just wanted to no will glitch/tinyspeck be joining in?

If you don't no what I'm talking about read this
technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_ne...

And you can google sopa

Apparently the current list of sites blacking out is
Reddit
Wikipedia
AOL
eBay
Etsy
Facebook
Foursquare
Google
IAC
LinkedIn
Mozilla
OpenDNS
PayPal
Twitter
Yahoo!
Zynga

Now these are major companies that affect the whole Internet so just wanted to no if glitch/tinyspeck would be joining in too

Posted 11 months ago by Santa Clause Subscriber! | Permalink

Replies

Previous 1 2
  • While we are waiting for this to be moved to off-topic, I can predict that they won't. Even though tiny speck could arguably be affected by this, as a Canadian company that lets users post content in status updates and profiles. Don't get me wrong, it would be very cool if they did, and all the Americans should go to the EFF action center and contact their reps to register their opposition. But yeah, I guess not.
    Posted 11 months ago by katlazam Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mm thought it'd get moved to off topic but posted t here for a debate and it's sort of got something to do with glitch
    Posted 11 months ago by Santa Clause Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If we had the Glitch voting system in place this would be a perfect opportunity to see it in action, though this isn't really what they had in mind ("Votes allow you to to vote on which features or content will be added to Glitch next.")

    But I'd yes vote to see TS support the efforts to defeat SOPA, whether through "going dark" or any other means they find helpful/useful and in the spirit of Glitch. Perhaps they are already active on this issue?

    I'd also be curious to hear how others feel about TS supporting this with a blackout. Could all of us addicts handle a little down time if it means potentially better up time for Glitch (and the World of Wider Webs) later?

    +1
    Posted 11 months ago by The Cat Face Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Considering Glitch is still in Beta for a unspecified amount of time I doubt it has enough standing to actually affect anyone - therefore I doubt it will have any closing. 

    Yahoo
    Google
    Facebook
    Wikipedia
    Glitch??
    Posted 11 months ago by Yves Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think on that day the internets going to be one massive black out really as the companys already listed "run the internet" really

    Yves I mean I highly doubt they'll I on list like that as there not that we'll nown but they can still show there support wether by blacking out or whatever there's probably hundreds of other websites blacking out but there the most famous
    Posted 11 months ago by Santa Clause Subscriber! | Permalink
  • From my point of view, most of the sites going offline to protect SOPA are sites whose users frequently post items that could possibly be considered to be in violation of copyright laws.  Glitch itself is original content, and most of what we post here deals only with Glitch.  Here and there you may see references to fandoms that we're a part of, but we don't really post fanart/fanfic/fanvids for anything non-Glitch related.

    And actually, of the sites listed, I'm pretty sure that only Reddit has confirmed that it will be shutting down.  It'll be going offline on January 18th for 12 hours.

    Even if Tiny Speck is from a different country, I'd still like to see them show some kind of support or do something to increase awareness.
    Posted 11 months ago by Sindee☆Cyanide Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes, please. The more sites that shut down in protest against this pernicious and horrible proposed legislation, the better.
    Posted 11 months ago by Flowerry Pott Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Most of the sites will have a 'front page' about SOPA that their regular customers have to click through, but will they actually be shutting down?  My impression is that most of them will not.
    Posted 11 months ago by Kalstept Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It's a toughs because every site that's shut down looses them buisness but then again in the long run it could gain them buisness
    Posted 11 months ago by Santa Clause Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Whoo. Gonna be a boring day on the Internet, but if this is what needs to be done to show politicians no this is not a good idea stop dat shit, I'm all for it.
    Posted 11 months ago by Shiromisa Kaya Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Websites from other countries will be affected, i think a lot of people are forgetting that. Because lets say Company A claims Website B has pictures that are copyright infringing, they can force ISPs to block that site, even without proving it. It isn't just about shutting down american based sites, or even file sharing sites. If SOPA, with all its grey, goes into effect - any site can be shut down for limited reasons before it is even proven that copyright infringment has happened. There will be no grace or warning period.

    All i can think is, when Iran or China does this sort of thing in the name of blocking the public from information, Americans are all up in arms about censorship. This isn't that different, just censorship of different info. Yet, people claim it is for a good reason without reading all the fine print.

    ETA: did anyone see what happened with the Italian Wikipedia page when it had to go black for a while? EVERY page redirected to this: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip... {don't worry it has english translation}
    Posted 11 months ago by Pixieyelsraek Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Pixie thanks for that link it was interesting
    Posted 11 months ago by Santa Clause Subscriber! | Permalink
  • glitch should definately go offline. SOPA affects everyone not only US citizens.
    Posted 11 months ago by kohlhaas Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Good question and definitely on topic
    Posted 11 months ago by TheBoyWhoCriedRook Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This definitely does concern glitch because if anyone on the forums posted or linked to copyrighted materials it would be an excuse for the US government to blacklist this whole site. The US might not be able to take down the site but they can censor it for the US players.  
    Posted 11 months ago by Lealia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Glitch should not go offline, because then we'd have nothing else to do on the internet during the blackout.
    Posted 11 months ago by Vera Mars Subscriber! | Permalink
  • To agree with and add to Pixie's point, the U.S. has already been pushing other countries to enforce various supposedly-in-the-interest-of-the-US. internet restrictions on their own populations -- Spanish and New Zealand citizens can speak to this -- so there will probably be additional international slop over if SOPA goes through.

    So, yeah, I do kind of feel Glitch should think about going dark if everyone else does, especially since they'll be moving in a direction of possibly including some user content in gameplay.  There's a rather ambiguous passage that could come into play there.
    Posted 11 months ago by Perry Helium Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Lamar S. Smith is just mad he couldn't find porn on the Internet. So he wants to shut ALL the things down.
    Posted 11 months ago by Volkov Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think this is really important, so I vote yes, and don't forget that most countries follow the big ones in this kind of matters, so yup I say yes, let the world see how things work down here. It's Important because of the message we users and web companies send, don't mess with our web, we have tons of users that love it, go mess something else.

    :) votes for a free web.
    Posted 11 months ago by arizoo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I won't mind if TS and Glitch gets a "blackout page" up. Even though I am not an American and do not live in America a lot of my Internet activities are based in America. Even the servers I had for my site, before I took it down, was hosted on American soil.
    Posted 11 months ago by Mal'akh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • lol Volkov.

    (and I'm guessing this all(sopa) has to be another one of those wonderful republican ideas)
    Posted 11 months ago by Sir Mixalatte Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mm I think so sir
    Posted 11 months ago by Santa Clause Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mostly Republican, but I saw some Democrats (3 out of 12) in the list of 12 initial co-sponsors.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
    Posted 11 months ago by Mal'akh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks for posting this Santa! I am embarrassed to admit that I was so involved in mining that I completely missed the issue.
    Posted 11 months ago by Fly Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Its Hollywood driven and Tinseltown owns a pretty good sized chunk of the DNC.
    Posted 11 months ago by Kalstept Subscriber! | Permalink
  • No problem fly
    Posted 11 months ago by Santa Clause Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hang up the Closed sign again!

    Yes for voting on this, using our shiny never-before-played-with subscriber votes.
    Posted 11 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hmm I wonder when te votes will be able to be used
    Posted 11 months ago by Santa Clause Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank you Santa.. I'd like to know when I can cast a vote on SOMETHING :(.  Anyway..as painful as it might seem to be, I would support TS should it choose to participate in the SOPA boycott   I would hate it and yet feel good about the effort.
    Posted 11 months ago by Joni Mitchell Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This isn't a Democratic vs. Republican issue; it has crossed party lines in a way very few issues do. This is, as one person has stated, the entertainment industry/old media vs. new media. Two of PIPA's biggest supporters are well-known and loyal Democrats from the rather blue California. It has support and opposition on both sides; we should embrace our allies on this issue wherever we find them.
    Posted 11 months ago by Wes Myrtle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Princess fi: thanks
    Wes: what do you mean exactly do you mean you support pipa and sopa
    Posted 11 months ago by Santa Clause Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What I got from what Wes was saying is not to make this a party issue {dem vs repub} because both the pro sopa and the anti sopa have both dems & rebubs supporting. So instead of fighting a party fight, we should embrace the opposite party members who agree with our stance, as allies.
    Posted 11 months ago by Pixieyelsraek Subscriber! | Permalink
  • While I fully support all of those sites blacking out, I believe that list is inaccurate. Reddit & the Cheezburger network are confirmed blackouts. The rest of the sites are only contemplating it.
    Posted 11 months ago by Asperity Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wikipedia said they would and the other sites said they'd follow in there path but they haven't confirmed it and ahh pixy didn't get what was said
    Posted 11 months ago by Santa Clause Subscriber! | Permalink
  • just wanna throw this out there - a partial list of companies who are in support of SOPA, if anyone feels like boycotting... sites.google.com/site/boyco...
    Posted 11 months ago by Pixieyelsraek Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wow, the one thing I like about that list though is that they hardly have anything to do with the Internet except there own pages where as google, fbook, twitter I bet would have more influence as they are the internet
    Posted 11 months ago by Santa Clause Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Huh.  Reps Brad Sherman and Howard Berman, now running against each other due to CA redistricting are both cosponsors.  I'm inclined to give them an earful.  Their area includes a lot of people who'll be hurt by this as well as the old media types.  This proposed law is simply insane.
    Posted 11 months ago by Zauberberg Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Why do they want to do this law in the first place?
    Posted 11 months ago by Santa Clause Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Why do they want to do this law in the first place? -- Santa Clause

    "To promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation by combating the theft of U.S. property, and for other purposes."  — H.R. 3261

    Ostensibly it's to protect American Intellectual Property Rights, but it has ramifications on an international scale.
    Posted 11 months ago by Mal'akh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ooh double post
    Posted 11 months ago by Santa Clause Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hmm interesting but not right
    Posted 11 months ago by Santa Clause Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hence the operative word; ostensibly.
    Posted 11 months ago by Mal'akh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Just had to find out what it meant the word :P I understand you now
    Posted 11 months ago by Santa Clause Subscriber! | Permalink
  • did we get any answer on this guys?

    its happening tomorrow :(
    Posted 11 months ago by Balgra Fonzarelli Subscriber! | Permalink
  • As much as I'd miss my Glitchfix, I'll be proud of TS if they take part in the boycott. We have to stand against this kind of thing.
    One thing that strikes me about the quote in Mal'akh's post is the inclusion of the phrase "and for other purposes". I can translate that to "whatever we want to prevent people from doing in the future". Talk about a slippery slope!
    Posted 11 months ago by Phoebe Springback Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I hope TS considers itself to be  Canadian BUT if  a lot of the devs are in SF then TS should participate in the shutdown. 
    Posted 11 months ago by Treesa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would absolutely support Glitch taking part in the protest.
    Posted 11 months ago by Angel Slocombe Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've just opened a help case and put dear Stoot and wrote about this I hope staff read it and take action and decide on what to do I spoke on behalf of everyone here unless everyone wants to open a help case and ask them to blackout

    Anyways news update
    Wikipedia confirmed there blackout for tommorow
    Twitter.com denied claims of blacking out
    Posted 11 months ago by Santa Clause Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Update - googles confirmed it will join Wikipedia and reddit in protesting against sopa tommorow it has not been released wether it will black out or not

    Update: go-daddy domain hosting is no longer a supporter of sopa and has no longer got its name on the congress bill
    Posted 11 months ago by Santa Clause Subscriber! | Permalink
  • For what it's worth, the SOPA vote has been suspended for an undetermined amount of time, according to Yahoo News.

    Also, the White House made an official statement regarding SOPA. It's a very long statement, but the bullet point is:

     "While we believe that online piracy by foreign websites is a serious problem that requires a serious legislative response, we will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet."

    The statement goes on to warn against the dangers of censorship, while also making it clear that the theft of intellectual property is a real crime with real consequences, and should be prosecuted as such. I recommend reading the whole thing, as it's quite well-written in its acknowledgement of IP concerns and the serious issues that could be caused by overreaching legislation.
    Posted 11 months ago by Eleni Ivanova Subscriber! | Permalink
Previous 1 2