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The Wikipedia community has chosen to blackout the English version of Wikipedia for 24 hours on January 18 in protest against proposed legislation in the United States — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and PROTECTIP (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate.
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English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA. San Francisco — January 16, 2012 — On January 18, 2012, in an unprecedented decision, the Wikipedia community has chosen to blacko…
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your so hott
hard-earned money is there any other way?
wow
sure, become a politician.
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+michel prins easy-earned money :).
+ 10 for +Zeb Palmer !
Kinda like a 24 hr hungerstrike
Now if Google went dark in the US, that would turn some heads.
If google went dark then google would suffer financially. Dollars count therefore google will not go dark.
anyone who goes dark is going to lose some money. they don't have to shut down their commercial clients and yes, they would piss some advertisers off, but they're bringing in billions and that's not going to change. Google isn't always about money, they're also about making the world a better place and making information available to everyone. SOPA & PIPA are the purest definition of un-Googly.
Google is about money. When they do something "to make the world a better place" it is called PR so that they can continue to make money. Google was created to make money. It exists because it makes money. Nothing wrong with that. Going Dark means they lose money ( a great deal of money ). Wiki going dark will actually make money for Wiki as going dark will draw attention to a organisation funded by donations. Google makes money buy charging advertisers. Googles decision to go or not to go dark will be a question of lost revenue (lots of it) vs the net positive PR impact of going dark. Given the amount of revenue that would be lost, it would require a hell of a lot of positive PR to outweigh. Bad business decision if they went dark.
Understood. Just sayin'
high LYNETTE YOUNG