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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Kyle Hall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kyle.m.hall@gmail.com">kyle.m.hall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Instead of a complete blackout, a new front page explaining the<br>
SOPA/PIPA issue with a click-though to the standard site would be a<br>
reasonable compromise. I certainly don't want to sound US-centric, but<br>
it seems that US policy often has world-wide ramifications ( often<br>
negative ) and it's probably in the best interest of every Internet<br>
user anywhere that SOPA/PIPA don't become law.<br>
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Kyle<br>
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On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:22 PM, MJ Ray <<a href="mailto:mjr@phonecoop.coop">mjr@phonecoop.coop</a>> wrote:<br>
> Liz Rea <<a href="mailto:lrea@nekls.org">lrea@nekls.org</a>><br>
>> It would be easy to participate in the SOPA/PIPA web blackout protest tomorrow on <a href="http://koha-community.org" target="_blank">koha-community.org</a>, should we?<br>
>><br>
>> Good idea? Bad idea?<br>
><br>
> If this means taking the websites offline, then I feel it's an awful<br>
> idea for many reasons: firstly, it's self-harm, hurting our friends<br>
> and not directly affecting our opponents; secondly, US websites didn't<br>
> protest or go offline while Brits were fighting EUCD, RIPA, IPRED and<br>
> so on (solidarity is not a one-way street and I see no prospect that<br>
> US websites will go offline for future foreign issues); it<br>
> demonstrates that the web can survive without those who oppose; and<br>
> probably more reasons I've not thought of quickly.<br>
><br>
> Protest banners/posts: +1<br>
><br>
> Defeating ourselves with a blackout: -1<br>
><br>
> Hope that explains,<br>
> --<br>
> MJ Ray (slef), member of <a href="http://www.software.coop" target="_blank">www.software.coop</a>, a for-more-than-profit co-op.<br>
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