SOPA strike

[critviz]

Wikipedia is joining and Google will too. Might as well shut down the thrown room. I know that many of you don't like the idea but at least other sites won't be able to say that we didn't at least try to contribute. I'm not saying that the Org will make a difference by shutting down or something like that but at least you can tell your grand kids that you helped try to stop something. I don't know abut you guys but this generation seems kind of lazy compare to what other people protested and were passionate about back in the day. I'm not asking for much...

[Montmorency]

Wikipedia is joining and Google will too. Might as well shut down the thrown room. I know that many of you don't like the idea but at least other sites won't be able to say that we didn't at least try to contribute. I'm not saying that the Org will make a difference by shutting down or something like that but at least you can tell your grand kids that you helped try to stop something. I don't know abut you guys but this generation seems kind of lazy compare to what other people protested and were passionate about back in the day. I'm not asking for much...

You want us to retroactively shame our descendants? Or do you expect that this will seem heroic to them?

[Drunk Clown]

Cool story to tell your kids

[naut]

Write a letter to your Conressman/woman, infinity more powerful and useful than shutting down a small forum for a day.

[Ludens]

I don't know abut you guys but this generation seems kind of lazy compare to what other people protested and were passionate about back in the day. I'm not asking for much...

That's the problem. You are not asking for much, so it won't impress the policy makers. Taking down the website is still lazy compared to what previous generations did. If you wish to raise awareness, there are better ways of doing it.

[TinCow]

I strongly oppose SOPA. I have contacted both of my Senators and my Representative about this issue. I believe that what Wikipedia and others are doing is noble and worthy of praise. I also believe those sites are large enough to make a difference. I do not believe that the Org has enough of a presence on the internet to make any difference whatsoever with a blackout. Any American who would be aware of the issue due to actions by the Org would already be aware of the issue due to the blackouts on the numerous other, much larger, sites, as well as the current media coverage tidal wave that's making everyone aware of it even if they don't turn on a computer today. Blacking out the Org would accomplish nothing except to deprive our members of their daily entertainment. As for how posterity will see it, we're not draft dodgers in WW2. What we did or did not do today will not even be remembered next month, let alone 20 years from now.