Wikipedia is going offline tomorrow.

Tomorrow, Wikipedia will be offline in order to protest internet censorship.


Now it's time to sit back and watch the whining.

 

Thanks for the warning.

 

+1

Can`t go a single day without those pics of ugly middle-aged people asking me for money.

 

this is perpostrous...i dont know what it means i just wanted to use it LOL

 

Wiki it fast.......

 

how does that protest anything? if it weren't for this thread, i would probably just end up assuming that their servers were down.

 

I'm going offline shortly to protest lack of sleep.. for about 8 hours. That'll teach ya'll.

 

Nah, they have a big black page and explanation nowwith a link to contacting your elected officials if you want to put in your zipcode:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

 

act got vetoed tho

 

if its on wiki it must be true..

 

Not really. Go to the 2nd page of this discussion

http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?threadid=443014&page=2

 

wow

 

while by its very nature, wikipedia isn't the most reliably accurate source of information on all things at all times, that it should ever have to go off line, is a crying sorry state of the world. national governments and corporate media both need to get their meddling fingers the eff off the internet.

if that makes everything posted on line automatically public domain, well good, it should be. of course it doesn't as interpreted currently. i'm just saying it wouldn't hurt my feelings if it did.

corporate greed isn't going to give up screwing everything until the planet can no longer support human life. unless all nations stop supporting it and making it possible.

so good for them, wikipedia, and everyone else who takes this kind of action

 

it's only offline for 24 hours isn't it? no sweat.

 

If you really need to look up something, just press your Esc key before the black screen pops up.

I tried it and it works.

 

My question is why isn't Hip Forums also supporting and participating in this protest??????

With all the talk of protest and standing up to corporations and big government that gets thrown around here, I'm a little dismayed that HF is online today, especially considering that this site would be one extremely impacted by internet censorship.

http://americancensorship.org/

 

i think most of us on hipforums are already against these bills. the reason for bigger profile sites going dark is to raise awareness and change opinions.

 

I went to go on Wiki today; forgetting it was going to be offline - inconvinience yes, but a protest worth supporting - I feel

 

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can't rep but cheers