To address a few of these concerns: The "blackout" I'm going to apply will not be a strict black out. More like throwing a blanket over the lamp - people will still be able to click through to our site, and they'll only see the protest once if they have cookies enabled. Re: solidarity with other countries fighting bad laws - I (personally) welcome any similar requests from any community member who feels that it might be helpful for the community to take a stance on an issue such as SOPA/PIPA. Certainly, any request sent to the list (as this one was) should be considered in the spirit of international cooperation. Liz Rea lrea@nekls.org On Jan 17, 2012, at 1:22 PM, MJ Ray wrote:
Liz Rea <lrea@nekls.org>
It would be easy to participate in the SOPA/PIPA web blackout protest tomorrow on koha-community.org, should we?
Good idea? Bad idea?
If this means taking the websites offline, then I feel it's an awful idea for many reasons: firstly, it's self-harm, hurting our friends and not directly affecting our opponents; secondly, US websites didn't protest or go offline while Brits were fighting EUCD, RIPA, IPRED and so on (solidarity is not a one-way street and I see no prospect that US websites will go offline for future foreign issues); it demonstrates that the web can survive without those who oppose; and probably more reasons I've not thought of quickly.
Protest banners/posts: +1
Defeating ourselves with a blackout: -1
Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/ _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
