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| OSNews Blacked Out for 24 Hours in SOPA Protest |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-01-19 00:09:54 |
| ...and we're back. Like so many other sites on the web, OSNews joined the worldwide protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT-IP Act, which threaten to end free speech, economic innovation, privacy, and the free exchange of information on the web. I don't wish to waste too many words on our participation, so consider this item as a sort of comment lightening rod to make sure that when the next story is posted, we can focus fully on its topic. Update: DC seems to be getting the message the internet sent today. |
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| RE[2]: Porn |
| By r_a_trip on 2012-01-19 09:59:03 |
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the (sic) Netherlands Not to toot our own horn, but we have always been very practical and we are pretty freedom loving and tolerant. If a controlling party had to be apppointed, going with The Netherlands would probably be the least bad choice in your list of options. Then again, I'd like the Internet to become less centralized, not more. |
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| By kristianhk on 2012-01-19 10:57:42 |
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Same with Opera. But yes, the text was visible :) EDIT: Guess someone said it before me, nm. Edited 2012-01-19 11:00 UTC |
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| RE[3]: Porn |
| By J-Ho on 2012-01-19 11:58:53 |
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> You had it easy! I had to bribe my buddy to sneak in to his big-brothers room to pick up one of his crappy quality (and I mean CRAPPY) vhs porn tapes and bring it over to our house and then I had to watch it with him hovering (very uncomfortable situation) as he was shit-scared that his brother would find out and just wanted to return ASAP, I still recall the title of the movie: 'Flesh Gordon' which was some softcore spoof of (yeah, you'll figure it out). Of course we had it tough. We had to get up at five in the morning, two hours before we went to bed, to walk to the local porno mag reseller. The store was situated in a shoebox in a septic tank in a lake in the middle of a motorway. We bought the rolled-up porno mags for a hand of freezing cold poison and brought them home to Dad, and when we got home Dad would beat us to death with his belt and slash us in half with a bread knife. Try to tell that to the young lads of today, and they won't believe you. |
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| RE[4]: Porn |
| By Valhalla on 2012-01-19 12:33:18 |
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I'd love to give you a +1's for reminding me of the wonderful 'four yorkshiremen' by monty python, sadly I can't mod you up since I've commented in this thread. I'll settle for a youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X... With SOPA in effect this posted link could bring OSNews down as they would be aiding in copyright infringement by hosting my comment. |
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| RE: Porn |
| By Jason Bourne on 2012-01-19 13:14:37 |
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What a full decayed world. Mankind is utterly lost. Comments from cold-hearted IT parents. Well, let's just wait when your daughter loses her virginity at 12, I want to see your faces... and then you come here, to support some kind of control over something you couldn't control yourself from a wider aspect point of view. You can keep your home PCs protected, but you don't know your neighbors' parental control situation, do you? And I bet they are totally morons who have no clue what a ten year old child is able to access on the internet and pass it on. SOPA may not have anything to do with this, but it helps to start the talk about this. I'm not american, but who HERE are to defy the most powerful & influential nation in the world at present time? Nevertheless, these rules need to be done collective between nations. 80% of downloadable porn is hosted in the USA. We should think better. There are major society problems we need to deal with instead of going on about liberty. Edited 2012-01-19 13:22 UTC |
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| RE[4]: Porn |
| By Hiev on 2012-01-19 13:18:55 |
| And if because it "failed" in Australia it will fail in the rest of the world. |
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| RE[4]: Porn |
| By Hiev on 2012-01-19 13:20:21 |
| The goverment is already helping you to rise your kids dummy, all those public schools, all those laws, you know whay are there for? So, make some valid arguments. |
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| RE[5]: Porn |
| By christian on 2012-01-19 13:29:42 |
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> I'd love to give you a +1's for reminding me of the wonderful 'four yorkshiremen' by monty python, sadly I can't mod you up since I've commented in this thread. I'll settle for a youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X... With SOPA in effect this posted link could bring OSNews down as they would be aiding in copyright infringement by hosting my comment. Which is the irony of it all, as you (and osnews.com) are not copying anything by having the link! |
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| Comment by MasterSplinter |
| By MasterSplinter on 2012-01-19 14:22:21 |
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I gave-in to the petition once I discovered both OSNews and Distrowatch we're blacked out. It was a looooooooong day. |
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| RE[3]: New browser extensions |
| By sbergman27 on 2012-01-19 14:26:14 |
| Not exactly the point. Google Cache has you covered no matter what site X decides to do. (Well, within limits.) But besides that, it still leaves you with Wikipedia's clunky search and relatively slow page loads. I'm continuing to use the extensions. Google Cache is a better delivery system than Wikipedia's. |
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