Wikipedia down starting tomorrow
01-16-2012 at 10:15 PM
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Wikipedia down starting tomorrow
Wikipedia will go down for 24 hours starting tomorrow at 12 am as a protest against SOPA.
search what you want to search now!
http://wikimediafoundation.o rg/wik...-SOPA_blackout |
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01-16-2012 at 10:46 PM
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errr do your homework now?
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01-16-2012 at 11:05 PM
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reddit will also be down i guess its time to get to work
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01-17-2012 at 02:04 AM
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I'm pretty impressed with Wikipedia doing this. While Reddit is doing they same thing, it's more symbolic for Reddit (I'm assuming a vast majority of Reddit users know about SOPA and are against it), while Wikipedia has a decent chance of reaching people that have no idea what SOPA is.
On the bright side, regardless of happens SOPA is basically dead now that the white house has come out against it.
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01-17-2012 at 02:07 AM
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like above , do all ur hmwk now so u dont have to wiki stuff.
we are screwed if google goes down. who are we gona ask, jeeves?
and lol @ anti piracy. congress owend it
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01-18-2012 at 10:43 AM
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My math prof is hotter.
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01-18-2012 at 11:14 AM
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It's working for me.
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01-18-2012 at 11:30 AM
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Originally Posted by lizziepizzie
It's working for me.
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how is that even possible, unless you're clicking cached |
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01-18-2012 at 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Amaryll
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Wikipedia hates bathing in general. 
Also, thanks for the lolz. I'm not sure why they're even asking when it says so on the website what they're doing and why, although by reading what they say, I suspect that many of them are the type to do things last minute and are in a rush to get on Wikipedia. Seeing the page redirected, they immediately start panicking simply because they don't care for reading anything than what they came there for.
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01-18-2012 at 11:32 AM
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If only people were this passionate about putting issues forward, rather than reacting to crazy shit american legislators do..
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01-18-2012 at 12:04 PM
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how is that even possible, unless you're clicking cached
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Apparently the website will work if you disable javascript |
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01-18-2012 at 01:09 PM
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hit escape when the page is loading, and it will work  |
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01-18-2012 at 02:57 PM
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Apparently the website will work if you disable javascript
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You can also stop the page from loading right before the SOPA information pops up. I actually thought that they would completely disable wikipedia instead of just putting the pop up on every page.
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